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Sujan Singh Bundela, the Rajput satrap, began the political journey in late seventies. The two-time MP retired from active politics in 2009. His son Chandra Bhushan Bundela aka ‘Guddu Raja’ has been with the SP for long but he lost the last two assembly polls in the state. His (Sujan Singh Bundela’s) brothers Pooran Singh Bundela and Virendra Singh Bundela became MLAs many times and served as ministers.

In a region where one experiences abject poverty existing side by side with extreme effluence, this family has complete control on mining of granites.

While three senior Bundelas lost their utility for being party hoppers, the new Samajwadi Party leadership denied ticket to Chandra Bhushan this time around.

He figured on the list of SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav but was dropped after the change of guard in the party. Guddu Raja’s loss in the last assembly polls was attributed to his uncle Virendra Singh Bundela who on trying to gain political foothold one more time and ended up contesting against his own nephew.

“Each member of the family has deep political ambitions and they don’t shy away from taking on each other,” says Bharat Rawat, a political analyst from Lalitpur.

“Such a scenario could never have been imagined for the Bundelas. Once their mere support to a candidate meant victory,” claims a family friend.

“They compromised and competed so much with one another that they lost credence,” he asserts.

Sujan Singh Bundela, who was elected district panchayat chairman in 1980, quickly contested assembly elections on Congress ticket the same year and won. He was elected to Lok Sabha in 1984 but lost in 1989



Bundelas, Sikhs, Jats and Satnamis

Bundelas

The Bundelas are a Rajput clan of central India. The families belonging to this clan ruled several small states in the Bundelkhand region from the 16th century.

Mythical origin

The mythical accounts of the Bundela dynasties trace their ancestry to the Suryavansha (solar dynasty). An example of such an account is that of Gorelal or Lal Kavi (c. 1700 CE), who composed a poetic biography of the Bundela king Chhatrasal.

The Bundela claim descent from Manu Vaivasvata, and Ikshvaku, through Lava, the elder son of Lord Rama. From Lava were descended two brothers names, Gagansen or Gaganaspati and Kanaksen. The latter is said to have founded Vallabhipura in Gujarat around 144AD, while the former is said ti have migrated eastwards and founded a kingdom for himself in 182AD. Of the descendants of Gagansenm, nothing is known till Kartraj appears in around 674AD, and who proceeded to Kashi or Banaras where he contrived to oust the local chief, a Sani Rajput. He then married Vara, daughter of the local chief, Magha, and was ancestor of the next 20 Gaharwar rulers of Banaras (674-1048), of whom nothing but the names is known, as follows below. Tradition ascribes the name Bundela to Raja Pancham Vindhyela (also known as Hem Karan), son of the Gaharwar ruler of Benares, Raja Karan Pal, themselves a branch of the early Kannauj Dynasty. He was expelled from his kingdom by his brother, then retired to the shrine of Bindachal and became a votary of Bhawani.

He intended to sacrifice himself to that deity, but after inflicting a wound upon himself was stopped from doing further injury by Bhawani and was promised that his kingdom would be restored, and that in commemoration of the blood already spilt, his descendants were to be called Bundela, derived from ‘bund’. It is probable that the founder of the clan was Hardeo, a son of one of the Gaharwar rulers of Kantit. He took up his residence near Orchha and by

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