Nigamanand's family fasts for his body

June 16, 2011 15:26

With all these fasts add another million tonnes of grain to the rotting heap outside the godowns.

Now the family of Swami Nigamanand has threatened to go on an indefinite fast if the seer's body is not handed over to them for the last rites. Swami Nigamanand's father Subhash Chandra Jha and other family members reached the ashram at Haridwar and claimed over his body saying they wanted to perform his last rites at his native place in Darbhanga district of Bihar.

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