Self-styled godman Nithyananda aka Arunachalam Rajasekaran, a fugitive who’s going through sexual abuse costs and kidnapping in India, could have established a fantasy land for himself – a nonexistent so-called Hindu nation ‘United States of Kailasa’ – however he’s now going through real-world hassle! His followers from Kailasa have been arrested for allegedly attempting to take over land parcels in Bolivia.
The Bolivian officers have instructed the New York Instances that as many as 20 individuals, linked to Kailasa, had been arrested on the fees of “land trafficking” after they signed offers with indigenous teams to lease massive elements of the Amazon for 1,000 years.
They stated that the members of Kailasa had been additionally deported to their dwelling international locations – India, america, Sweden and China.
In an announcement, Bolivia’s Ministry of Overseas Affairs stated, “Bolivia doesn’t preserve diplomatic relations with the alleged nation ‘United States of Kailasa’.”
How Kailasa members managed to seize lands in Bolivia
In response to the NYT report, Kailasa members entered Bolivia on vacationer visas and linked with Indigenous teams promising help throughout forest fires.
Pedro Guasico, a pacesetter of ‘Baure’, one of many teams, stated the contact with the Kailasians became the signing of a 25-year lease value $200,000 yearly.
When the members of Kailasa returned, the deal talked about 1,000-year lease with permission to ‘extract pure assets’.
However on paper, the $200,000 appeared extra important than the change in lease years. And Baure chief signed.
“We made the error of listening to them. They provided us that cash as an annual bonus for conserving and defending our territory, but it surely was utterly false,” he was quoted as saying.
The land-grab controversy got here to gentle after Bolivian newspaper ‘El Deber’ investigated and found that members of the nonexistent nation had signed 1000-year leases with the teams.
Is Kailasa an official nation?
No, the United Nations has not recognised ‘Kailasa’ as a rustic and India has stored its distance. In a bid to realize worldwide recognition, Nithyananda despatched a delegation to the United Nations the place it sought safety for the “supreme pontiff of Hinduism”.
In August 2022, a Karnataka court docket had issued a non-bailable warrant towards Nithyananda in reference to a rape case. The case towards the fugitive religious determine was filed in 2010 primarily based on a criticism by his former driver Lenin. The controversial guru has, nevertheless, failed to reply to all of the summons issued towards him since 2019.
In response to reviews, Nithyananda fled India in 2019 and after a few yr, introduced the founding of ‘Kailasa’ with its personal passports, foreign money and ‘reserve financial institution’.
