page_title: Kirori Singh Bainsla
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Kirori Singh Bainsla / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Kirori Singh Bainsla when he was a major in the army , circa 1972
context_page_description: Kirori Singh Bainsla is a retired Lieutenant Colonel of the Indian Army and in 2007 led a caste protest movement in the state of Rajasthan. This demanded reservation in government jobs for the Gurjar community in Rajasthan. He leads the Gurjar Arakshan Sangharsh Samiti which has led the wave of protests across the state.
  Protest marches organised by the movement have at times led to violent clashes with civil authorities and have been accompanied by extensive property damage. In 2007, Bainsla led a protest in which 27 people were killed in clashes with police, and as of May 2008, a total of 43 people had died in such clashes, most of them protesters. Bainsla has blamed police for the violence. In May 2015, a similar protest was organised by thousands of Gurjars under the leadership of Bainsla.
  Bainsla has been prosecuted for his involvement in the protests. Following one major protest that blockaded Delhi for a day, the Rajasthan High Court issued a notice of contempt against him for allegedly violating a previous order to keep the protests within lawful bounds.
context_section_description: After beginning work as a teacher, Kirori Singh Bainsla enlisted in the army as a sepoy, following in the footsteps of his father who served in the British Indian Army. He was married at the age of 14. His wife died in 1996. He fought in the Sino-Indian war of 1962 and Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 and was taken a prisoner of war in the latter. His seniors in the army named him the Rock of Gibraltar. He was later elevated to officer rank and commissioned into the Guards regiment. He rose to be a lieutenant colonel. It has been speculated that his military background might have enabled him to organise the Gurjar protest with such precision and on the large scale which characterised it.
  Bainsla has a daughter and three sons. He lives in Hindaun, a tehsil in Karauli district of Rajasthan. He belongs to village Mundia मुंडिया Rajasthan Pin : 304502 ( lat / long 26.824077, 76.912098 ) around 30 km from Hindaun city. His wife Mrs Resham Bainsla belonged to village Deolen, around 12 km from Mundia. He wears the traditional dress of a red turban and white clothing.
  He once said that "Only a bullet or a letter (granting the demands) can remove me from here." He says that one of the reasons he is engaged in this cause is because his children are settled and so now he can think of his "greater family".
  He has mooted the concept of "Social Emergency" for a period of 15 years - wherein the society should focus on two things - Good Health & Good Education,  reduce all wasteful and extravagant expenditures on marriages / katha bhagwats, etc. and reinvest the monies saved for education and health. In all his social gatherings in the rural areas of Rajasthan he asks one question primarily - how many people take a book / magazine / newspaper back home in the evening for their families to read. Over the years his focus on education has had massive results.
caption: Kirori Singh Bainsla circa 1972
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