Ayodhya Ram Temple chief priest Acharya Satyendra Das passes away

Acharya Satyendra Das, the chief priest of Ayodhya's Shri Ram Janmabhoomi temple,passed away on Wednesday at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences in Lucknow.  Acharya Satyendra Das was admitted to the High Dependency Unit (HDU) of the Neurology ward in SGPGI, Lucknow in critical condition on February 3 after he suffered a stroke. A day after Acharya Satyendra Das suffered a brain stroke, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath met the ailing priest at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI). He was under close monitoring of the Senior Consultant, Neurology department. 
Earlier, Acharya Satyendra Das was seen celebrating the first anniversary of the Pran Pratishtha ceremony at Ayodhya Temple on January 11. The Chief Priest described the celebrations as "very beautiful." CM Yogi Adityanath condoles the demise of Chief Priest of Ayodhya Ram temple, Acharya Satyendra Das. The CM says "The demise of Acharya Shri Satyendra Kumar Das Ji Maharaj, the supreme devotee of Lord Ram and the chief priest of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Temple, Shri Ayodhya Dham is extremely sad and an irreparable loss to the spiritual world..."
According to Pradeep Das, the elderly priest's cremation will take place by the banks of the Saryu river in Ayodhya on Thursday and his body was currently being taken to the holy city from Lucknow.