Swami Jitendranand (born 25 February 1972), also known as Acharya Jitendra, is a religious leader, monk, environmentalist activist. He is the General Secretary of Ganga Mahasabha. He is also serving as General Secretary of Akhil Bhartiya Sant Samiti. He is founder of Hind-Baloch Forum. An organisation dedicated to freedom of Balochistan and sacred Hindu Pilgrimage Hinglaj peeth. He has organised several seminar for Baloch freedom struggle throughout India. He is first religious petitioner against places of worship act 1991 in Supreme Court Of India. He has been working for Ganga since 2000. He is an environmental activist in India. It was his effort to convince Mr.

Lal Krishna Advani Lal Krishna Advani (born 8 November 1927) is an Indian politician who served as the 7th Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2002 to 2004. Advani is one of the co-founders and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a longtime memb ...

in 2008 to compel the Chief Minister B.C. Khanduri to abandon all state hydro-dam projects on the Ganga and persuade Professor Guru Das Agrawal G. D. Agrawal to give up his fast within 24 hours. In 2010 again, Acharya Jitendra played a crucial role to stop the Loharinag Pala Hydel Project – On The Ganga. He even approached senior Congress leaders for their support. When a favourable atmosphere was created, he met

Pranab Mukherjee Dr. Pranab Mukherjee (11 December 193531 August 2020) was an Indian politician and statesman who served as the 13th president of India from 2012 until 2017. In a political career spanning five decades, Mukherjee was a senior leader in the India ...

, leading a delegation of the Ganga Mahasabha. He then spoke to senior

Vishva Hindu Parishad The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) () is an Indian right-wing Hindu organization based on Hindu nationalism. The VHP was founded in 1964 by M. S. Golwalkar and S. S. Apte in collaboration with Swami Chinmayananda. Its stated objective is ...

leader

Ashok Singhal Ashok Singhal (27 September 1926 – 17 November 2015) was the international working president of the Hindu organisation Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) for over 20 years and in charge of the Ayodhya Ram Janmabhoomi movement. He was replaced in the ...

and the Bharatiya Janata Party's

Rajnath Singh Rajnath Singh (; born 10 July 1951) is an Indian politician serving as the Defence Minister of India. He is currently the Deputy Leader of the House Lok Sabha. He is the former President of Bharatiya Janata Party. He has previously served as ...

, who persuaded CM

Ramesh Pokhriyal Ramesh Pokhriyal "Nishank" (born 15 July 1959), is an Indian politician who was appointed on 31 May 2019 to serve as Minister of Human Resource Development and as of July 2020, following the ministry's name change, his title was changed to Min ...

to write to the PM, asking him to scrap the Loharinag Pala project. He challenged Tehari Dam project. He wrote a letter to Bihar Chief Minister

Nitish Kumar Nitish Kumar (born 1 March 1951) is an Indian politician, who is serving as Chief Minister of Bihar since 22 February 2015, having previous held the office from 2005 to 2014 and for a short period in 2000. The leader of the Janata Dal (Unit ...

demanding to rename Bakhtiyarpur after Chankya or Shilbhadra In March 2022, Jitendranand Saraswati was allegedly accused of inciting religious hatred towards Muslim, during the free screening of Vivek Agnihotri's film,

The Kashmir Files ''The Kashmir Files'' is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language drama film written and directed by Vivek Agnihotri. The film presents a fictional storyline centred around the 1990s exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from Indian-administered Kashmir. It depicts ...

, in front of the gathering that included young children. Jitendranand reportedly told his audience "You think that you are safe here but you are not. You have no preparation… They are present in Badwani, Madhya Pradesh and every part of India. They’re a threat to the whole world.” “Stay away from them like we stay away from the coronavirus.....What has Lord Bholenath taught us? He taught us that to save yourself, what should you pick up?” he asked the crowd, which responded: “shastra (arms)”. In August of the same year, The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) and Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), put forward a complaint to the Mumbai Police against Jitendranand Saraswati in response to him inciting his followers for lynching of pregnant Muslim women during one of his religious sermons. The alleged hate speech incident was recorded in a video in Jitendranand Saraswati's own YouTube channel titled “देश धर्म पर आघात हम चुप क्यूँ है” (Why is the country silent on the attack on religion?).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Saraswati, Swami Jitendranand Living people Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University alumni Indian environmentalists 1972 births