Mahant Ravindra Puri of Niranjani Akhara elected as new president of Akhara Parishad

Mahant Ravindra Puri of Niranjani Akhara was elected as the president of the Akhara Parishad on Monday. The post fell vacant after the suspicious death of Mahant Narendra Giri last month.

A month after the death of Mahant Narendra Giri, Mahant Ravindra Puri, who is the secretary of Niranjani Akhara, was elected as the new president of the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad on Monday.

During a meeting of the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad in Prayagraj called by General Secretary Hari Giri, representatives of 7 out of a total of 13 akharas were present. They all supported the name of Ravindra Puri for the post of president. One akhara supported Puri through a letter.