19 Facts About Swaroopanand Saraswati

Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati was an Indian religious leader.

Swaroopanand Saraswati has been the only person to have become Shankaracharya of two Peetha simultaneously.

Swaroopanand Saraswati was born Pothiram Upadhyay on 2 September 1924 at Dighori village of Seoni district, Madhya Pradesh in a Kanyakubja Brahmin family.

Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati became president of the Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad, established by Swami Karpatri.

Swaroopanand Saraswati was at the forefront of the anti-Congress movement in 1950s.

Swaroopanand Saraswati served as the president of Ram Rajya Parishad.

Swaroopanand Saraswati was jailed three times between 1954 and 1970 in relation to the movement to ban cow slaughter.

Swaroopanand Saraswati died in Narsinghpur on 11 September 2022, at the age of 98.

Swaroopanand Saraswati was jailed for this, serving a prison sentence of nine months and another of six months.

Swaroopanand Saraswati organised a protest at Jantar Mantar against such projects.

On 30 June 2014, Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati said that Article 370 should be removed from Jammu and Kashmir.

Swaroopanand Saraswati advocated a uniform civil law for Hindus and Muslims in India, to maintain a balance in their population.

In 2021, Swaroopanand Saraswati criticised the BJP for adding organisations into the trust merely because they "support" the political party.

Swaroopanand Saraswati criticised appointments of the individuals into the trust and added "nobody knew who is Champat Rai but now he is the head of the trust".

Swaroopanand Saraswati stated that more than twelve crore cows were being slaughtered in the entire country every year, which needed to be stopped.

Swaroopanand Saraswati said in February 2016 that the RSS claimed to be working for Hinduism but thousands of RSS workers in Arunachal Pradesh ate beef.

Swaroopanand Saraswati mobilised the Naga sadhus in enforcing his order that Sai devotees should not be allowed to worship Rama or bathe in the Ganga.

Swaroopanand Saraswati questioned the growing number of their temples in India and said that if they were sincere they should have built them in Assam and Chhattisgarh which had fewer temples.

Swaroopanand Saraswati asked Congress party to clear their stance over cow slaughter.