Magh Mela admin notice to seer for using title of 'Shankaracharya'
Lucknow, Jan. 21 -- Amid a row over authorities "stopping" Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati from taking a holy dip in the Ganga during the ongoing Magh Mela at Prayagraj, the Mela administration has issued a notice asking him to explain how he was using the title of Shankaracharya of the Jyotish Peeth.
Trouble began on Sunday when Saraswati along with his supporters was on his way to take dip in the Sangam on the occasion of Mauni Amavasya and the police allegedly stopped him.
The notice issued on Monday by the vice chairman of the Prayagraj Mela Authority Dayanand Prasad refers to a appeal pending before the Supreme Court, in which the court had ordered that until the appeal is disposed of, no religious leader can be consecrated as the S...
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