‘Hindu Rashtra’ dream, BJP leaders at his satsangs — how an MP ‘baba’ is gaining ground in Maharashtra

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Mumbai: In the last one year, Dhirendra Krishna Shastri, popularly known as Bageshwar Dham Baba, of Madhya Pradesh has held at least five major satsang (religious congregation) programmes in Maharashtra...

On the record, Maharashtra Cabinet minister and senior BJP leader Sudhir Mungantiwar denied that there were no ulterior motives behind hosting Shastri...

At the start of this year itself, the godman landed in a soup for the statement made about Sant Tukaram, a revered figure in Maharashtra, in a video that was shared widely...

Doctors have given up, he says.. Bageshwar Baba ki jai, the joyous woman says.. Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis and senior leader Chandrakant Patil were present at the Pune congregation...

Later, the Akhil Bharatiya Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti founder lodged a complaint against him under the Maharashtra Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice and Other Inhuman, Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Act, for promoting superstitious activities in his public programmes..