The Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad (ABAP), the apex body of Hindu sadhus, released on Sunday what it said was a list of fake saints even as it demanded a crackdown on “rootless cult leaders”.
The move by the ABAP, which is an umbrella organisation of 13 recognised akharas, or monastic orders, came against the backdrop of a series of controversies surrounding self-styled godmen,
1. Asaram Bapu (Asumal Sirumalani)
2. Sukhbinder Kaur (Radhe Maa)
3. Sachchidanand Giri (Sachin Datta)
4. Gurmeet Singh of Dera Sacha Sauda
5. Om Baba (Vivekanand Jha)
6. Nirmal Baba (Nirmaljeet Singh)
7. Ichchadhari Bhimanand (Shivmurti Dwivedi)
8. Swami Asimanand
9. Om Namah Shivay Baba
10. Narayan Sai
11. Rampal
12. Acharya Kushmuni
13. Brahaspati Giri
14. Malkhan Singh
, the apex body of Hindu sadhus, released on Sunday what it said was a list of fake saints even as it demanded a crackdown on “rootless cult leaders”.){kind=link}