Swami Avimukteshwarananda Saraswati said on Saturday that in Sanatan Dharma, Shankaracharya is considered a person who works for religion. Swami Avimukteshwarananda told reporters in Varanasi, ‘Whoever his (Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath) supports, he is Shankaracharya. Whoever talks about Sanatan Dharma is not Shankaracharya at all. The definition he (Adityanath) has created was never there before.
According to the report published in BBC, Shankaracharya accused CM Yogi and said that when Yogi Adityanath became the CM, there were 40 cases against him and as soon as he became the Chief Minister, he got all the cases removed.