Like numerous others like her, Sharda Bhau of Akhnoor in Jammu & Kashmir considers Das responsible for the positive change in her life.
Widow of Havildar Daler Singh Bhau who attained martyrdom in Tololing hills in 1999 during the Kargil war told The Pioneer that Das visited her house after the death of her husband and persuaded her to attend the Yajna which was being organised in the town.
“The grief gets reduced by sharing and it happened with me.
The Yagya gives a sense of inner peace to me,’’ she said. The ascetic even encouraged Sharda Bhau to join politics after seeing her inclination. In the last year’s BDC elections Sharda won with a record margin in Akhnoor.
