Citing the notice issued to Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati by the Uttar Pradesh administration, Congress on Tuesday targeted the Yogi Adityanath government of the state and said that the people of Bharatiya Janata Party are asking for citizenship papers from the Muslims of the country, now they are also asking Shankaracharya to show the papers.
Party’s media department head Pawan Kheda also said that no chief minister or administration has the authority to decide who Shankaracharya is.
In fact, amidst the controversy over the fair police and administration allegedly stopping Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati from taking a bath on Mauni Amavasya in the Magh Mela, the fair administration has issued a notice to him asking how he is promoting himself as the Shankaracharya of Jyotishpeeth.
Government is giving notice at midnight asking whether Shankaracharya is there or not: Congress
Kheda told reporters here, ‘There is an unbroken tradition of Guru-disciple, under which Shankaracharya is elected, but the government is giving a notice at midnight asking whether you are Shankaracharya or not.’
The Congress leader said, ‘When Prime Minister Narendra Modi bowed before Avimukteshwaranand ji, he was Shankaracharya, until he asked questions to the government on beef, he was Shankaracharya, until Avimukteshwaranand ji was opposing the consecration of the half-finished temple, he was Shankaracharya, but now he is no longer Shankaracharya because he did not bow before the king, so Adityanath will ask for papers from him today. Have been.’
First asked for papers from Muslims and now from Shankaracharya: Pawan Kheda
He said sarcastically, ‘Earlier, BJP people used to ask Muslims to show their papers. Now the situation has reached such a stage that they are even asking for papers from Shankaracharya.
Kheda said, ‘In 1954, the Supreme Court had ordered that no one has the right to interfere in the running of the monastery. In such a situation, the notice sent by Ajay Singh Bisht (Yogi Adityanath) is a violation of the law. The whole country is watching the silence of Modi and Ajay Singh Bisht, the country will never forgive them.
