Amaresh Misra is an Indian writer and a conspiracy theorist[1] He was the convener of the Anti Communal Front in Uttar Pradesh state for Indian National Congress for 4 years till 2014.[2]
During his college years, Misra was a student leader of the Left CPI-ML (Liberation) party in Allahabad University.[3] He co-wrote the script for the movie Bullet Raja.[4]
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Amaresh Misra is a proponent of several conspiracy theories. He has claimed that the 2008 Mumbai attacks were organized jointly by the CIA, Mossad and RSS. According to him, the Intelligence Bureau was behind the killing of the Mumbai Police’s Anti-Terrorist Squad chief Hemant Karkare. He has also blamed BJP and RSS for the 2012 Assam violence, and MNS for the Azad Maidan riots.[5]AltNews.in reported that Amaresh Misra wrote a conspiracy theory about Ankit Saxena’s murder. He blamed Sangh for Ankit’s murder, though the killers confessed, and eye witness mentioned killers name, google maps proved that Amaresh Misra’s claims were false.[6]
He wanted to rewrite modern Indian History to reflect Indian perspective instead of the British accounts .[7]
He unsuccessfully contested the 2009 Loksabha elections from Lucknow on the ticket of Ulema Council.
The Urdu Press Club of India awarded Amaresh with the Jasarat Award in 2007.[8]
- Lucknow: Fire of Grace: The Story of its Renaissance, Revolution and the Aftermath (Delhi: Harper Collins, 1999)
- The Minister’s Wife (a novel—Penguin, 2002) ISBN 978-0143028161
- Mangal Pandey: The True Story of an Indian Revolutionary (Delhi: Rupa, 2005)
- War of Civilizations: India AD 1857, Vols 1 and 2 (Delhi: Rupa, 2007)
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