India, Feb. 19 -- Jagadguru Shankaracharya Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati Maharaj, in reference to West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's 'Mrityu Kumbh' remark, said that if someone calls the Maha Kumbh Mela names amid the 'mismanagement' and 'deaths' then 'we won't be able to oppose it'.

The seer slammed the grand religious event and said that the water with which devotees are bathing is mixed with sewage water is considered unfit for bathing by scientists, and yet "you are forcing crores of people to bathe in it".

He questioned the administration over the lack of pure water, saying that they should have either stopped the drains for a few days or divert them so that "people could get pure water while bathing".

Saraswati Mah...