Shri Rajput Karni Sena‬‬ Wiki | Founder| Head |Leader | Activity| State

Shri Rajput Karni Sena‬‬ Wiki | Founder| Head |Leader | Activity| State

In the last one year, Shri Rajput Karni Sena is the headline of every newspaper and Media channels with some different reasons, Shri Rajput Karni Sena is a Rajput Caste group founded in 2006. Shri Lokendra Singh Kalvi is the Founder of Shri Rajput Karni Sena, It is based in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Shri Rajput Karni Sena favors "Unity" and opposes to caste-centric reservation system in educational institutes and government jobs.

Shri Lokendra Singh Kalvi is the founder and Leader of Shri Rajput Karni Sena,  he can be seen in various tv debates and other social gatherings of Rajpoots, He opposes the distortion of Rajpoot History and glorification of the invaders who had looted and destroyed the Rajpootana.Shri Rajput Karni Sena described both as a Hindutva and a Hindu nationalist group.

Shri Rajput Karni Sena Activities 

Protest against Bollywood films against distortion of Rajpoot History

Shri Rajput Karni Sena had protested against the film Jodhaa Akbar in 2008. the protest was related to a "historical confusion" as the fictional central character Jodha Bai was the wife or daughter-in-law of the Mughal emperor Akbar. further, it has been found that the real objection was to the depiction of the marriage between the Muslim Akbar and a Hindu Rajput princess. 

Shri Rajput Karni Sena did not receive the apology from the Jodhaa Akbar film-maker, Ashutosh Gowariker, some Rajasthani cinemas had not shown the film and there were some protests in other states also. 

Further, Shri Rajput Karni Sena objected to the movie Veer in 2010, claiming that the Film maligned their "brave community". They vandalized some cinemas that showed the film, 

Shri Rajput Karni Sena announced their opposition to the similarly-titled and -themed Jodhaa Akbar historical drama television series in 2013, Karni Sena associates said that the group would organize legal action and public protests to ban the series from being broadcast if discussions with the television company, Zee TV, did not achieve their aim. Karni Sena claimed that the Hindu-Muslim marriage involves a fictional character and was a distortion of history resulting from poor research.

 In 2014, Shri Rajput Karni Sena organized a protest against Ekta Kapoor, the producer the Jodhaa Akbar series. A month later, Shri Rajput Karni Sena members allegedly attacked the offices of Zee Media in Jaipur, the television broadcast company. Journalists demanded that the police should arrest Lokendra Singh Kalvi,Shri Rajput Karni Sena Leader

In 2016, Shri Rajput Karni Sena started a protest against film Padmavati, a Bollywood film,
based on Sufi poet Malik Muhammad Jayasi's epic Padmavat written in 1540 AD
about  Padmavati,
Sena claimed that the film is distorting Rajput history and hurting Rajputana sentiments.

The film allegedly depicts inaccurate facts, they had vandalized the sets of the film.
In a sting operation conducted by an Indian news channel claimed that the Karni Sena activists
may have planted the controversy in order to extort money from the filmmakers.
The Sena Mans broke the mirrors that were installed in the Chittor Fort, claiming that they
misrepresent the story of Rani Padmavati, whose face, according to Padmavat,
was shown to  Alauddin Khalji using a mirror.

Other Protests

Karni Sena Supporters had also protested in 2009 at the University of Rajasthan, in a dispute
between Rajput and the Jat students caste conflict escalated as fellow Jat students protested
against the treatment of their colleague. The two castes constituted a significant proportion
of students at the university and their caste associations the Karni Sena and the Jat Mahasabha
tended to get support in particular from those cast members who came from small towns and
villages. The caste barriers were reinforced by the existence of caste-based accommodation
and tended to become particularly evident in student politics, which reflected the similar
caste-based rivalry found in the politics of the state of Rajasthan itself.

In 2010, the Indian Police Service said that it had detained seven Shri Rajput Karni Sena
activists who were planning to disrupt an event at which Sonia Gandhi would be attending.