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During Dussehra celebrations in Delhi’s Pitampura on October 20, BJP leader and Delhi minister Kapil Mishra set fire to a 30-foot-tall cockroach effigy alongside the traditional effigies of Ravan, Kumbhkaran, and Meghnad.The Shri Keshav Ramlila Committee (NSP Pitampura) organized the burning of the cockroach effigy, a decision led by the committee’s president and BJP MLA Ashok Goel.