Sakshi Maharaj Quotes

Swami Sachchidanand Hari Sakshi Ji Maharaj also known as Sakshi Maharaj is an Indian political and religious leader belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party. He won the 2014 general election from Unnao, Uttar Pradesh. He also won Indian general election in 1991 from Mathura, 1996 and 1998 from Farrukhabad. He was also a member of Rajya Sabha from 2000 to 2006, before being suspended for corruption. He holds a PhD degree and runs various educational institutions and ashrams across India under the banner of Sakshi Maharaj Group for which he is also serving as its present director.He has been at the center of controversies for his pseudohistoric, pseudoscientific, and Islamophobic views. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. January 1956
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Famous Sakshi Maharaj Quotes

“The sadhu has always ruled the society. We sanyasis have come forward today to purify politics, just as Lord Shiva stepped forward to drink the poison which sprang from the churning of the cosmic oceans.”

On the role of sadhus in Indian politics, as quoted in " Vishva Hindu Parishad and Indian Politics https://books.google.co.in/books?id=b70nKb-8YuMC&pg=PA78&dq=sakshi+maharaj&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDoQ6AEwBjgKahUKEwjhz_ySyK3IAhXG26YKHfrkA7c#v=onepage&q=sakshi%20maharaj&f=false" (2003) by Manjari Katju, p. 78.

“It is certain that Ram Mandir will be constructed under the BJP rule. If it is not built today, it will be built tomorrow or the day after. We have completed just one year in power, four more years are to go.”

On the Ram Janmabhoomi issue, as quoted in " Ram temple will be built during BJP rule, says Sakshi Maharaj http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/ram-temple-will-be-built-during-bjp-rule-says-sakshi-maharaj/article7291611.ece", The Hindu (7 June 2015)

“If someone insults our mother, we would rather die than tolerate it… for us, it is Bharat mata, our biological mother and gau mata.”

On the 2015 Dadri mob lynching, as quoted in " If someone insults our mother, we would rather die than tolerate it, warns BJP’s Sakshi Maharaj http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/cow-mother-country-are-alike-dont-insult-sakshi/", The Indian Express (7 October 2015)

“This population rise in not because of Hindus. Population has risen due to those who support the concept of four wives and 40 children.”

Blaming the population growth in India on the Muslim minority, as quoted in " Those with 4 wives behind population rise: Sakshi Maharaj stirs row in UP https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/politics/070117/those-with-4-wives-40-children-responsible-for-population-rise-sakshi-maharaj.html", Deccan Chronicle (7 January 2015)

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