Targetting the BJP over the death of Mahant Narendra Giri, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut said "Hindutva has been strangulated" in Uttar Pradesh and sought a CBI probe into the "mysterious death" of the top seer.

The influential Hindu seer was found dead on September 20 at Baghambari Muth in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. He was the president of Akhil Bharatiya Akhada Parishad, the largest organisation of sadhus in India. Talking to reporters, Raut said the reason cited for the seer's death is a suicide, but his followers feel that he was murdered.