The easiest way to earn fabulous wealth in India today is religion. There are quite a few godmen and ammas who have amassed more wealth than the Ambanis and Adanis by selling gods to people. What happened in Mathura yesterday should open the eyes of both the people and the authorities. The followers of one Baba Jai Gurudev illegally occupied 280 acres and used violence when the police tried to evict them. The ‘religious’ people used swords, knives, guns, grenades and even automatic weapons. Exemplary cooperation between a Baba and his Government The Baba who died in 2012 (at the age of 116 as claimed by his followers) started off his divine career making the fraudulent claim that he was Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. That was in 1975 when people were not as willing as they apparently are today to be hoodwinked. The Baba’s fraud was greeted with a shower of slippers, rotten eggs and tomatoes. But Babas being some of the most ingenious people, they always find a way
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