Today, Balbir Giri will be formally appointed as the head of the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad

NEW DELHI: Mahant Narendra Giri’s most trusted disciple, Mahant Balbir Giri, will be formally appointed as the head of the Akhil Bhartiya Akhara Parishad on Tuesday, just days after his death.

The coronation ceremony will be held at the Baghambari Math in Prayagraj, and thousands of saints from across the country, as well as followers of the late Mahant, will attend.

Narendra Giri, a 35-year-old disciple of the late saint, will be the Akhil Bhartiya Akhara Parishad’s youngest administrator. The head of Shri Panchayati Akhara Niranjani’s office decided on his appointment as the next head of Baghambari Math in Prayagraj.

After Mahant Narendra Giri’s death on September 20, the position was vacant. Balbir Giri has been the most trusted disciple of Narendra Giri in the past 15 years. After the coronation ceremony, Balbir Giri will receive a five-person administrative agency’s Approval of all major decisions.

The 35-year-old left his family in Uttarakhand in 2005 to practice and received Narendra Giri’s “diksha” in Haridwar. He looked after Bilkeshwar Mahadev temple.

Balbir and Anand Giri, a key accused in Mahant’s death case, became the disciples of Mahant Narendra Giri almost at the same time, and they got along very well.

However, after a disagreement between Narendra Giri and Anand Giri, Balbir remained loyal to the former. In May of this year, Anand Giri was expelled from Ahala and Mathematics School, and he became second.

Balbir Giri is the deputy archbishop of Niranjani Akhara and spends the majority of his time at the Bilkeshwar Mahadev temple.

In his suicide note, Narendra Giri named Balbir Giri as his successor. Previously, Narendra Giri named Balbir as his successor in his first will and testament in January 2010. In his second will and testament, however, he named Anand as his successor in August 2011.

It should be noted that Narendra Giri changed his will once more in 2020, naming Balbir as his successor.

“According to the request of Maharaj Ji (Narendra Giri) in his will, we have appointed Balbir Giri as his successor,” said Mahant Ravindra Puri, General Secretary of Niranjani Akhara. In his suicide note, he also mentioned his decision. I saw it on video before Maharaj Ji committed suicide.”

“A board will be formed soon to assist the new Mutt head,” Ravindra Puri added.

The ‘Panch Parmeshwar’ (five selected seers) and others will serve on the board.

 

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