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In a determination blending spiritual activism with integer outreach, Shankaracharya of Uttarakhand-based Jyotirmath, Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati, connected Thursday (May 21, 2026) announced the motorboat of GO-LX, an online level aimed to bargain cows and forestall them from getting slaughtered.
The Shankaracharya is presently undertaking a cattle extortion yatra crossed Uttar Pradesh. The run began earlier this period and is expected to proceed until July.
“The projected website, Go-LX, is being designed connected the lines of online classified platforms, allowing livestock owners oregon traders intending to merchantability cows to station advertisements. Cow extortion volunteers and funny buyers would past beryllium capable to link with sellers and put purchases,” helium said successful Sultanpur.
He added that the inaugural would alteration Hindu cattle owners crossed the state to straight merchantability cows to buyers associated with cattle extortion efforts.
“This thought emerged from suggestions made by members of the Hindu assemblage committed to cattle welfare,” helium said, adding that the website was expected to go operational wrong a time oregon two.
The spiritual person besides said that a communicative was being dispersed done societal media and definite quality outlets claiming that if Muslims stopped buying cows oregon consuming beef, Hindu cattle farmers would look an economical crisis. He said specified claims were being utilized to make disorder and part successful society. He stated that economical and societal issues should beryllium understood based connected facts and existent circumstances alternatively than being viewed done a spiritual lens.
The Shankaracharya began the Statewide cattle extortion march weeks aft the constabulary successful Prayagraj, successful February, registered a lawsuit against him implicit allegations of molesting 2 minors aged 14 and 17, pursuing directions from a peculiar court. He has denied the charges, calling them mendacious and politically motivated, and claimed that the ailment came aft a quality with the Prayagraj territory medication implicit alleged assaults connected his followers during the Mauni Amavasya bathing time connected January 18, 2026.
The struggle escalated successful the pursuing weeks, with the authorities issuing notices questioning his usage of the rubric “Shankaracharya” and accusing him of creating a “stampede-like situation” astatine a large spiritual gathering. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath besides commented connected the contention and criticised the Shankaracharya without naming him directly.
