While the inflammatory speeches of Hindutva saints during a Dharam Sansad in Haridwar last week have gathered global attention, their other activities have gone unnoticed — imparting weapons training to adolescent boys and girls and raising an armed vigilante brigade.
Swami Anand Swaroop said during the Sansad: “If governments do not listen to our demand, we will wage a war far scarier than the 1857 revolt.” He heads the Shankaracharya Parishad, formed in 2019 ― and also runs Kali Sena, a group of 11,000 armed vigilantes. “We keep shaastra-sammat shastra (weapons recognised by scripture), licensed weapons that can be used when the time arrives,” he told The India Cable, insisting on the need to raise an army.
Pandit Adhir Kaushik, present in the gathering, runs Akhand Parashuram Akhada in Haridwar. Its sole purpose is to impart weapons training to kids. In videos of his Akhada, tender
— source theindiacable.com | Ashutosh Bhardwaj | 28/Dec/2021