Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad President Mahant Narendra Giri Passes Away at 72
- Mahant Narendra Giri, the President of the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad (ABAP), has passed away at the Baghambari Math in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. He was 72.
- ABAP is considered as the largest grouping of sadhus in India.
- Mahant Giri was first made the chief of the Akhara Parishad at the Nashik Kumbh in 2014 and was re-elected for the second time in 2019.
- Under Mahant Giri, the Parishad released a list of allegedly “fake saints”
- ABAP headquarter – Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh