Mangalore: Mangalorean Satyajit is Sai Baba’s Successor?
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)
With inputs from Udayavani
Mangalore, Apr 27: With the passing away of spiritual leader, Sri Sathya Sai Baba, the question of who will take over the mantle of Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust, has come to the fore. While the trustees will meet on Wednesday April 27 after the last rites of Sathya Sai Baba are performed to take some key decisions, Puttaparti is agog with rumours about the likely successor to the assets worth about Rs 40,000 crore left behind by Sai Baba.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba apparently did not name a successor. There is rumour about some rift between Baba’s relatives and some trustees over the assets. Some also claim that Sai Baba has left behind a will, in which he has named Satyajit, his close aide during the last years of his life, to head the said trust.
Satyajit, 38, is a Mangalorean, who had been ardently serving Sai Baba since the last 15 years selflessly. He was the only person besides the doctors, to be on Baba’s bedside, when the spiritual guru’s end came. Since Sathya Sai Baba suffered fracture of the thigh bone in 2003, Satyajit has always been with him, be it personal meetings or public functions. On a number of occasions, Sai Baba had profusely appreciated the dedicated service rendered by Satyajit. Sai Baba is said to have expressed his wish to give a prominent position to Satyajit in the above trust.
Satyajit was born in Kudroli in the city on February 16, 1974, to Umesh from Sasihitlu and Mohini from Kudroli. His father was employed in a bank in Mumbai. Satyajit’s parents, who were dedicated devotees of Sahya Sai Baba, admitted him into BSc course in Puttaparti in 1991, where he continued to pursue his studies and secured MSc and MBA degrees. At the convocation, Sri Sathya Sai Baba handed over the gold medal he secured in MBA degree, to Satyajit. Baba, who liked the speech this young postgraduate delivered about the former on the occasion, asked him to join him as his personal assistant. That was the turning point in the life of the youth, and from that moment, Satyajit life was completely devoted to Sai Baba. Satyajit’s parents also are serving at Satya Sai’s ashram in Whitefield Bangalore.
Security Cover for Trustees of Sathya Sai Central Trust, Satyajit
The late Sathya Sai Baba’s trusted aide Satyajit has been given police protection following intelligence inputs that he may be facing a threat to his life.Satyajit had been the Baba’s main “caretaker” for many years.
He, however, had been facing a lot of allegations ever since the Baba was hospitalised on March 28. The main allegation was that Satyajit did not feed the Baba proper food and gave him lot of sedative drugs, resulting in deterioration of the latter’s health, police sources said.
Doctors who treated the Baba in the Satya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences neither confirmed nor denied that sedative drugs were given to him prior to his admission in hospital following respiratory problems.
Satyajit, along with the Satya Sai Central Trust secretary K Chakravarthi, is said to be enjoying the cheque signing power on behalf of the Trust and is seen as a most powerful man in the Ashram affairs.
“There are some people within the Ashram as well as outside who are antagonistic to Satyajit. There is a possibility of someone causing harm to his life in the wake of the Baba’s demise. As such he is being provided police protection,” a senior police official said.