Bulldozer Justice began with the evoking of the machine by UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath of the BJP. While bulldozers are routinely used across India to remove illegal constructions, the bulldozer has been portrayed as a symbol of law enforcement in addressing property-related crimes, communal violence rioters and alleged criminal activity.

2022年6月19日 · Bulldozers, invented 100 years ago, have been used across the world to build homes, offices, roads and other infrastructures. But in recent years, many say, they have become a weapon in the hands...

2022年6月17日 · The bulldozer appears as immediate justice for the miscreants by giving them ruthless punishment. One of the popular songs on Yogi Adityanath’s version of the bulldozer describes why people like it. It says that when the bulldozer comes, the bad elements of society hide, and the powerful and the musclemen run away.

2025年1月27日 · Over time, Adityanath turned the bulldozer and its associated subtext of aggression into a campaign tool. He embraced the epithet “bulldozer baba,” coined by the local media and used disparagingly by his political opponents, using it to his advantage to enhance his reputation as a strongman.

2022年4月21日 · Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath earned the nickname of ‘Bulldozer Baba’ in Uttar Pradesh for his extensive use of the machinery to free up over 67,000 acres of government land from the clutches of land mafia in the state.

2025年1月7日 · Bulldozers have become a symbol, a perpetrator of a divisive and violent brand of retributive justice that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has developed since Modi...

2024年9月2日 · FROM 'BULLDOZER BABA' IN UP TO MP'S 'BULLDOZER MAMA' The phenomenon, pioneered by UP CM Yogi Adityanath, is where bulldozers are used to demolish the homes and properties of people accused of criminal offences. Since 2017, several crimes in UP have resulted in bulldozers being rolled out on the properties of the accused.

2024年5月30日 · First seen in Uttar Pradesh under chief minister Yogi Adityanath, who has been called “bulldozer baba”, it has since spread to Madhya Pradesh, where former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan...

2024年2月7日 · India’s widespread unlawful demolitions of Muslims’ homes, businesses and places of worship through the use of JCB bulldozers and other machines must stop immediately, Amnesty International said in two companion reports released today.

2022年6月15日 · Also called "bulldozer justice", the trend has lately seen heavy machinery being deployed to demolish houses of those who have protested and have been accused of rioting. Houses, shops and small establishments have been bulldozed in India, disproportionately targeting Muslims in the Hindu-majority country.