Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Trust President Mahant Nritya Gopal Das tested positive for Coronavirus on Thursday.
The Mahant had shared stage with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Ram Temple groundbreaking ceremony at Ayodhya on August 5. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath were also on the stage with him.
Sources said Nritya Gopal Das, who was also the president of the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi Trust, was in Mathura to take part in the 'Janmashtami' festival, when he complained of uneasiness, coughing and breathing difficulty. He tested positive in the Covid-19 antigen test.
Sources also added that the Mahant had participated in the 'Janmashtami' celebrations at the Shrikrishna Janmabhumi on Wednesday evening. Several seers and other office bearers of the Trust had also taken part in the celebrations. He was staying at an 'ashram' in Mathura.
Adityanath spoke to the Mahant and the doctors and directed them to provide the best possible medical care. Das was likely to be shifted to a private super speciality hospital in Gurgaon. ''The Mahant is stable....he has mild fever and cough,'' the doctor who attended to him in Mathura, said.