Odisha: Successor of Laxmanananda gets threats to life
Laxmanananda was killed in Jan. 2008
Nearly 13 years after the brutal murder of Hindu spiritual leader Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati in Odisha’s Kandhamal district, the incumbent manager of the Kanya Ashram (residential school) founded by him received death threat from an anonymous caller. Swami Jivanmuktananda Puri of Jalespata ashram has lodged a complaint in this regard at Tumudibandh police station. Acting on the complaint, inspector-in-charge Babashankar Saraf visited the ashram and assured security.
According to the complaint, Swamiji reached the Kanya Ashram from Puri on Saturday. At around 5 pm, he received the call where the caller threatened to kill him and blow up the ashram.
When asked about his affiliation, the caller said he belongs to Maoist organisation before disconnecting the call. Frightened over the threat call, Swamiji rushed to Tumudibandh police station and lodged a complaint.
Swamiji suspected that someone got angry with him as he works for Hinduism as well as development of the region.
Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and his four disciples were brutally shot dead by miscreants on the ashram premises on January 23 night in 2008. Saraswati had received an anonymous threat only a week before his assassination.
Expressing deep concern over the alleged repeated death threats issued by some anonymous caller to Swami Jivanmuktananda Puri, the successor of spiritual leader late Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati and the chief of the Kanya Ashram at Jalespata in Kandhamal district, the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Sunday demanded full proof security arrangements for him.
Addressing a press conference, the VHP Odisha unit came down heavily on the Odisha government and accused it of not taking action against the main culprits involved in Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati’s killing in 2008.