It began as an attempted crusade against superstition, but instead ended in venerated mythmaking and apartheid in a fancy dress. That’s what happened when ABP News tried to do a reality check on the rumoured miraculous powers of a self-styled godman in Madhya Pradesh.
Dhirendra Shastri, a 26-year-old self-styled godman who leads the Bageshwar Dham in Chhatarpur of Bundelkhand, claims to understand the problems of all those who seek his help and jot them down on a piece of paper without asking for any inputs. However, he is now in the news over allegations that he is just another fraud, after he refused to accept a challenge by the Nagpur-based Akhil Bharatiya Andhshraddha Nirmoolan Samiti – an anti-superstition organisation.
