Chinmayanand: How once a superstar of Ayodhya agitation is now in disgrace

Once he was entangled, incriminated, and arrested for the alleged rape of a law student, who claimed to have come out after long victimisation, Chinmayanand had no escape route

In 2009, a commission of inquiry, headed by M S Liberhan, a retired high court judge, submitted a report to the Centre on the events and circumstances that led to the demolition of the Babri mosque, and arraigned eight individuals for the “pre-planned act”. Only three are alive. Among them is Swami Chinmayanand. Once a superstar of the Ayodhya agitation, Chinmayanand is in disgrace. Not because of Liberhan. The commission’s indictment left him unscathed as it did the others because the Ayodhya movement was believed to have popular “legitimacy” and beyond the pale of law. 

Once he was entangled, incriminated,