| Swami Jitendranand Saraswati | |
| Birth Date: | 21 October 1985 |
| Birth Place: | [Raigarh ] |
| Nationality: | Indian |
| Citizenship: | Indian |
| Other Names: | Swami Jitendranand Saraswati, Acharya Jitendra |
| Known For: | Save Ganga Crusader |
| Education: | Post Graduate |
| Alma Mater: | Sies |
| Occupation: | Environmental Activist |
| Website: | gharwapasi.in |
Swami Jitendranand (born 21 oct. 1985), also known as Acharya Jitendra, is a religious leader, monk, environmentalist activist. He is the vice president of International international peace committee. He is serves as General Secretary of Akhil Bhartiya Sant Parishad. He is founder of Hindu Heet Sabha. He has organized several seminar for pakistani hindu struggle throughout India. He is first religious petitioner against places of worship act 1991 in Supreme Court Of India.[1]
JItendra works for Ganga since 2000. He is an environmental activist who convinced Mr. Lal Krishna Advani[2] in 2008 to compel the Chief Minister B.C. Khanduri to abandon all state hydro-dam projects on the Ganga. He persuaded Professor Guru Das Agrawal G. D. Agrawal to give up his fast within 24 hours.
In 2010, Acharya Jitendra played a crucial role to stop the Loharinag Pala Hydel Project – On The Ganga. He approached senior Congress leaders for their support. When a favorable atmosphere was created, he met Pranab Mukherjee, leading a delegation of the Ganga Mahasabha. He then spoke to senior Vishva Hindu Parishad leader Ashok Singhal and the Bharatiya Janata Party's Rajnath Singh, who persuaded CM Ramesh Pokhriyal to write to the PM, asking him to scrap the Loharinag Pala project. He challenged Tehari Dam project.[3] He wrote a letter to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar demanding to rename Bakhtiyarpur after Chankya or Shilbhadra [4]
In March 2022, Jitendranand Saraswati was allegedly accused of inciting religious hatred towards Muslim, during the free screening of Vivek Agnihotri's film, The Kashmir Files, in front of the gathering that included young children.[5] [6] [7] Jitendranand reportedly told his audience "You think that you are safe here but you are not. You have no preparation… They are present in Badwani, Madhya Pradesh and every part of India. They’re a threat to the whole world.” “Stay away from them like we stay away from the coronavirus.....What has Lord Bholenath taught us? He taught us that to save yourself, what should you pick up?” he asked the crowd, which responded: “shastra (arms)”.
In August of the same year, The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) and Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), put forward a complaint to the Mumbai Police against Jitendranand Saraswati in response to him inciting his followers for lynching of pregnant Muslim women during one of his religious sermons.[8] [9] [10] [11] The alleged hate speech incident was recorded in a video in Jitendranand Saraswati's own YouTube channel titled “देश धर्म पर आघात हम चुप क्यूँ है” (Why is the country silent on the attack on religion?).