The reports suggested that the headman was a member of the Bajrang Dal, a hard-line Hindu group.

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The men, from the Bajrang Dal, an organization affiliated with the BJP, were angry about one of Husain's paintings, Sita Rescued, in which the mythological figure of Sita, faithful wife of Hinduism's most noble ruler, Rama, is depicted in the nude.

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