Wife of MP bizman also takes diksha, leaves daughter to become monk

NEEMUCH/BHOPAL: Two days after her husband Sumit Rathore became a Jain monk, renouncing ₹100 crore property and threeyear-old daughter, 34-year-old Anamika Rathore too became a sadhvi on Monday amidst opposition from various quarters.

Akhil Bharatiya Sadhumargi Jain Shravak Sangh Neemuch district in-charge Sandeep Khabia said the function was held in Surat under Acharya Ramlal, the same guru who had initiated her husband to monkhood.

However, this time, the elaborate ceremony was missing, although the immediate family was present. Anamika will now be known as Sadhvi Anakaar.

The couple’s announcement that they would become monks together had sent shockwaves throughout the community and they had faced criticism, mainly for leaving their three-year old daughter. Activists had even moved the local administration in Neemuch and Surat and also written to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).

On Saturday, when Sumit became a monk, it was speculated that social pressure had postponed Anamika’s joining.

Hinting that the Jain religious leaders won’t tolerate interference from ‘outsiders’, sant Udai Muni, who is quite high in the Jain hierarchy, said no judicial or administrative power in the country could intervene in religious affairs of the minorities.