17 Facts About Arun Pathak

Arun Pathak was born on 16 June 1975 and is an Indian politician and social activist from Varanasi.

Arun Pathak is involved in charity work and campaigns for protection of Hindu culture.

Arun Pathak has attracted public attention for staging suicide attempts as a form of political protest.

In 1997, Arun Pathak started a campaign to ban liquor stores from being in close proximity to religious sites.

Arun Pathak wanted this policy to be in place in Varanasi and Ayodhya.

In 1998, Arun Pathak organised a celebration in Varanasi to commemorate the 1992 demolition of the Babri Masjid.

Arun Pathak put up flags as decoration, but the local police had them taken down and destroyed.

Three days later Arun Pathak woke up and found that the in charge police officer Singh had not been fired, so Arun Pathak took 50 more valium pills and threw himself in front of the car of the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.

Arun Pathak survived and a police officer who was responsible along with Singh was fired for misconduct in removing the flags.

Arun Pathak led a Vishwa Hindu Sena group in Varanasi to oppose the screening of the film Girlfriend, which dealt with subject matter about lesbians.

Arun Pathak's friends jumped into the river, rescued him, and rushed him to the hospital.

Pakistani Ghazal virtuoso Ghulam Ali was invited to perform at Sankat Mochan music festival in 2016 which Arun Pathak did not like.

Arun Pathak said that instead of offering the stage to a Pakistani singer, the organisers should invite Indian musicians.

Arun Pathak said that a beef eater like Ghulam Ali must not be allowed to enter in a Hindu temple.

In 2017, Arun Pathak announced that he with his follower will worship at the controversial temple Mata Shringar Gauri and when Police and the administration arrested him to stop him from doing so, as a protest he again tried to attempt suicide by cutting veins of his hand.

Arun Pathak got critically injured and admitted to trauma center immediately.

On 15 August 2018, Arun Pathak and his followers were again arrested by the police as he tried to hoist the national flag on a controversial place Bindu Madhav temple known as Madhav Rao Dharhara which is a National Monument.