Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust goes begging

June 2011, the government of Andhra Pradesh decided to rein in the Sai Trust (see here). There is now a public petition by the current Sai Trust authorities to get the taxpayer to subsidize the social projects started in the name of Sathya Sai Baba. They want free electricity for all their institutions! This is yet another indicator of how donations to the Sai Trust have fallen off following on the importunate demise of Sathya Sai Baba, the utter scandal of his massive private hoarding of valuables, the confiscation by the Trust of the valuables from the rightful owners – the family of Sai Baba – and the open struggle for control of the Central Trust with the various police investigations and court cases which disappeared so mysteriously (suggesting quashing through big payouts to movers and shakers behind the scenes, as is reported as having been done before to avoid yet bigger scandals).

The Sathya Sai Central Trust is run by a board including key persons whose reputations are frayed, to put it mildly… not least former Chief Justice P.N. Bhagwati and Ratnakara, the son of Sai Baba’s brother the super-rich property speculator Janakiramiah who, I was informed by V.K. Narasimhan, masterminded the blackmail of Puttaparthi police so that they murdered four devotees who intruded into Sai Baba’s apartment in 1993. Other Trust members at that time were involved in the stand-off between police and the intruders while Sathya Sai Baba cowered in his garage nearby, such as Colonel Joga Rao. Sathya Sai Baba himself was never even questioned by the police or CBI, all of whose investigations were quashed through the influence of the Sai devotees PM Narasimha Rao and Home Minister S.B. Chavan. However, V.K. Narasimhan did question Sai Baba – the only person who dared to question him – and made known to various persons that Sai Baba’s answers were “not convincing, not convincing!” (See here)

SB’s secret chamber

Sai Secrets

Lakhs seized – Sai Trust

Police refute Trust

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Though Sai Baba is deceased and can no longer himself be brought to legal trial. However.  you can see a selected list of prominent signers of the Sai Petition here.