Mohit Pandey is an Indian priest who was appointed as one of the chief pujaris of the Ayodhya Ram Mandir in 2023.
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Mohit Pandey was born in 2001 (22 years old; as of 2023) in Belhaura, Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh. He attended Shri Dudheshwar Nath Math Veda Vidyapeeth in Ghaziabad. In 2020, he pursued his Bachelor’s degree (Shastri) from Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University, Tirupati and then obtained his Master’s degree in Samaveda from the same university. One of his uncles was a Vedas scholar who inspired Mohit to follow the path of religion.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′8″
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
He belongs to a Brahmin Hindu family.
Parents and siblings
His father is a farmer and his mother is a housewife.
wife
He is unmarried.
Pastor of Ayodhya Ram Mandir
In 2023, he was one of the 3,000 priests who applied to recruit priests at the Ram temple in Ayodhya. Out of 3,000 priests, only 200 were shortlisted for interview based on merit. The interview was conducted at the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) Karsevak Puram in Ayodhya. Of the 200 priests, only 20 were chosen by three members, including Jaykant Mishra, a Hindu missionary from Vrindavan, and two saints, Sati from Ayodhya. Satyanarayan Das and Nandini Sharan. Mohit passed all the rounds and was selected as the priest of the Ram temple in Ayodhya. He subsequently underwent six months of training before starting work as a priest at the temple, which is scheduled to be inaugurated on January 22, 2024.
ayodhya ram mandir
Soon after Mohit was announced as one of the priests of the temple, several intimate pictures of him were doing the rounds on social media. Later, the Ayodhya police investigated the matter and found that the photo had been morphed by artificial intelligence. Hitendra Pithadiya, the Congress leader from Gujarat, was arrested by the police for circulating deepfake photos.
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