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In July 2024, cameras captured Prime Minister Narendra Modi bowing to Jyotirmath Shankaracharya Swami Avimukteshwaranand at Anant Ambani–Radhika Merchant’s “Shubh Aashirwad” ceremony in Mumbai, touching his feet and receiving a rudraksha mala in front of India’s most powerful faces. Barely 18 months later, the same Swami is being served a late-night notice at his Magh Mela camp in Prayagraj, with the Mela Authority citing a 2022 Supreme Court order and asking him to prove he is even the legitimate “Shankaracharya” of Jyotish Peeth, just days after his rath was stopped on Mauni Amavasya and clashes broke out with UP Police over a “no‑vehicle zone” at the Sangam. This video connects the dots between Modi’s public gesture of deference, Yogi Adityanath’s administration questioning his religious title, the long-running legal battle over Jyotish Peeth succession, and Swami Avimukteshwaranand’s charge that he is being targeted for criticising the Mahakumbh 2025 stampede response, raising a sharp question: when politics, courts and akharas collide, who gets to decide who a Shankaracharya really is, Watch the Full Video Now!
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