Author: Dina Nath Mishra
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: October 6, 2002
The Gujarat political situation
is totally polarised after Godhra carnage, the reaction thereof and bombardment
on the senses by pseudo secular parties, followed by the media. The impending
elections have worried the Congress extremely. Baffled Congress leaders
saw hope in Shanker Singh Vaghela, so the Congress president promptly nominated
him as the president of the Gujarat unit to counter Narendra Modi, the
caretaker Chief Minister of Gujarat.
The entire opposition was bent on
delaying the elections. Fortunately for them, the State Chief Election
Commissioner concurred with their wishes despite the fact of normalcy in
the state, although EC has been conducting elections during really disturbed
situations in J&K and earlier in Assam and Punjab.
Newly nominated PCC Chief, Vaghela
took a U-turn on traditional Congress policies and openly started playing
the Hindu card, for he thought Muslims have no option but to vote for Congress,
especially if the Opposition puts up a joint fight against the BJP.
In such pursuit, Vaghela paraded
one Swami Adokshajanand, in various towns and cities as Jagadguru Shankracharaya
of Goverdhan Puri Peeth. The young lad from Banda, donning a saffron robe,
has been impersonating the Jagadguru Shankracharaya of Goverdhan Math Puri,
Swami Nischalanand Saraswati for long. Some conspirators are behind this
move to launch a propaganda assault on Sangh Parivar, using the Hindu weapon
as the institution of Jagadguru Shankracharya, the most powerful, popular
and recognised authority among the Hindus for the last 2,500 years. He
has come handy to Sangh Parivar opponents, who made use of him extensively
in India and abroad. He was used by Muslim and Christian organisations,
as well as by political opponents of Sangh Parivar.
Numerous acts of impersonation have
been going on in India and outside, in spite of the due recognition of
Jagadguru Shankracharaya Swami Nischalanand of Goverdhan Math Puri by the
State Government of Orissa and Hindu Religious Endowment Act (1951). After
the arrest of Adokshajanand, honble High Court in Orissa unambiguously
reaffirmed: "Swami Nischalanand Saraswati was the recognised Jagadguru
Shankracharaya of Goverdhan Peetham and as such he has the recognised right
of enjoying all legal rights and privileges and status associated with
the honoured position of Shankracharaya." Not only this, the High Court
also debarred Adokshajanand from using the title of Jagadguru Shankracharaya
of Goverdhan Peeth, apart from prohibiting him from going within the radius
of 1,000 meters of the temple. And yet the impostor continues to claim
to be Shankracharaya of Puri Peeth. It is high time that his passport is
impounded, criminal cases filed in Gujarat against him are pursued actively
and a CBI investigation launched for his possible links with Islamic fundamentalists
funded by the ISI.
When the news of Adokshajanands
speeches in Gujarat reached Swami Nischalanandji, he immediately sent his
personal and legal advisor P N Mishra, an advocate practising in Kolkatta
High Court and Supreme Court, to Gujarat. Mishra spoke to Vaghela and informed
that Adokshajanand was an impostor, that he was arrested in Puri and about
High Courts judgement against him. Vaghelas response was strange, as he
was not worried about whether he was a fake or a genuine Shankracharaya.
He did not mind using him for propaganda, as Adokshajanand was the only
available saffron alternative. P N Mishra addressed the Press Conference
in Ahmedabad, exposing the whole game. Undeterred by this, the Congress
went on with their propaganda. The corporation of Ahmedabad controlled
by the Congress felicitated him. The Mayor, pre informed about his impersonation,
pleaded helplessness. Even Ajit Jogi, the Congress Chief Minister of Chhatisgarh
tried thrice to persuade Vaghela not to use Adokshajanand, for he was fake.
Jogi has been in contact with Nischalanandji Maharaj for quite some time
to arrange a meeting between His Holiness and the Congress President Sonia
Gandhi.
Some of Adokshajanands activities
can be traced. Material downloaded from the web site of the Milli Gazette,
Jamia Nagar www.milligazatte.com throws light on Adokshajanand. The impersonator
procured an invitation for a journey to Libiya from the Gaddafi International
Foundation for Charity Association (GIFCA) headed by Saiful Islam, son
of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Adokshajanand was flown to Tripoli unto
Sirte along with a group of 30 Indians including Pandit N K Sharma, once
political advisor of ex-PM, Narasimha Rao. As per the report, the Indian
group sat around Gaddafi and listened to his inciting lecture. Those who
attended Gaddafis lecture included Maulana Asad Madani as President of
Jamaite-Ulema-E-Hind and representative group of Deoband and many anti
Sangh Parivar elements.
Indian Express published the PTI
news item of dateline, Srinagar June 26, 2000, as follows, Jagadguru Shankracharaya,
Swami Ninchalanand Saraswati of Goverdhan Peetham, arrived here today...
A photo was also published with the caption naming him thus. Strangely
the photo was of Adokshajanand. From the material down loaded from the
website of Policy Institute for Religion and State, www.pifras.org, on
18th July, 2002 at Washington DC,. Adokshajanand Teerth spoke on religion
and politics, impersonating himself as His Holiness, yet again. But Vaghela
obviously does not have any qualms about using the habitual thug.
