{"id":53100,"date":"2021-09-22T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=53100"},"modified":"2021-09-22T05:58:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T05:58:01","slug":"akhil-bharatiya-akhara-parishad-chief-narendra-giri-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/akhil-bharatiya-akhara-parishad-chief-narendra-giri-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad chief Narendra Giri passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad president Mahant Narendra Giri was found dead. It was in 2016 that Giri first took over as chief of the<strong>&nbsp;Akhara Parishad.<\/strong>&nbsp;It was during his tenure that the Parishad released a list of allegedly&nbsp;<strong>\u201cfake saints\u201d.<\/strong>&nbsp;In 2019, Giri was elected chief of the Parishad for a second time. Giri&#8217;s body was found in Baghambari mutt in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Prayagraj.&nbsp;According to initial reports, he was found hanging.&nbsp;Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath&nbsp;will visit Prayagraj today to pay his&nbsp;last respects to Mahant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, a year after the Supreme Court verdict in the Ayodhya title suit, a meeting of the Akhara Parishad, chaired by Giri, had passed a resolution saying they would initiate a campaign on the lines of Ram Janmabhoomi movement to&nbsp;<strong>\u201cfree the Hindu temples\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;in Varanasi and Mathura. Recently, Giri had also demanded the inclusion of the Akhara Parishad in the&nbsp;<strong>Ram<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Janmabhoomi Trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad president Mahant Narendra Giri was found dead. It was in 2016 that Giri first took over as chief of the&nbsp;Akhara Parishad.&nbsp;It was during his tenure that the Parishad released a list of allegedly&nbsp;\u201cfake saints\u201d.&nbsp;In 2019, Giri was elected chief of the Parishad for a second time. Giri&#8217;s body was found in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":53101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1417],"tags":[1801],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-53100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-september-2021","tag-passes-away"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53102,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53100\/revisions\/53102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53100"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=53100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}