Madhya Pradesh elections 2018: Computer Baba expelled from Digambar Akhara, barred from entering Kumbh

Computer Baba had tendered his resignation on October 1, six months after he was accorded the MoS status. He had accused Chouhan of not fulfilling promises like cleaning the Narmada river.

Computer Baba. File Photo

Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh): In a significant development, Ujjain’s prominent seers on Thursday unanimously decided to bar Computer Baba alias Namdeo Das Tyagi’s association with any of the Akharas in the city and also banned his entry to the forthcoming Kumbh mela. He was also stripped of ‘Mahamandelshwar’ title that was accorded to him in the Panch Digambar Ani Akhada. The decisions taken in the meeting may have bearings on the state assembly elections this month for which Computer Baba wanted all seers and saints unite against CM Shivraj Singh Singh Chouhan. In the last week of October, the self-styled godman Computer Baba launched a campaign to unite seers against the “anti-religion” Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in the poll-bound state. Computer Baba had tendered his resignation on October 1, six months after he was accorded the MoS status. He had accused Chouhan of not fulfilling promises like cleaning the Narmada river. “(CM) Shivraj Singh Chouhan had promised me that the Narmada river will be kept clean and illegal sand mining won’t be allowed. But these promises were not kept. Now we have understood that the Shivraj government is anti-religion,” he reportedly said. The Baba believed that the state government was “doing nothing” for the protection of cows and “destroying Hindu shrines, temples and dwellings of seers in the state”.