In election season, the rolling out of the red carpet for Dhirendra Krishna Shastri aka Baba Bageshwar, at Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath’s bastion of Chhindwara has evoked mixed responses within the party.
On Saturday, the self-styled godman from the State’s Chhatarpur region, arrived in a chartered plane, to hold a ‘katha’ over the next three days until August 7.
Mr. Nath’s son and Lok Sabha member from Chhindwara, Nakul Nath, the patron of the religious event wrote on X (formerly Twitter): “Welcomed Param Pujya Pandit Dhirendra Krishna Shastri [Shri Bageshwar Dham Sarkar] at Chhindwara airstrip. It is our good fortune that Gurudev touched your feet on the holy land of Chhindwara.”
