Karni Sena Founder Lokendra Singh Kalvi No More; Had Opposed Bhansali’s ‘Padmavat’

Jaipur: The founder of the Karni Sena and Rajput leader Lokendra Singh Kalvi breathed his last in a government hospital in Rajasthan’s Jaipur on Tuesday.

According to his family members, he suffered a cardiac arrest on Monday night. Since past few days he was admitted to the Sawai Man Singh Hospital in Jaipur.

He was in limelight in 2018 because of his protest against the movie ‘Padmavat’. Kalvi was the patron of Shree Rajput Karni Sena, which had led the 2018 protests against Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s film ‘Padmaavat’ for alleged distortion of historical facts.

He was the son of former Union Minister Kalyan Singh Kalvi. He was also a national-level basketball player.

His funeral would be held at his ancestral village in Nagaur district’s Kalvi village later in the day.

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