Diaspora charities send their money to a billion-rupee religious empire in Uttar Pradesh. Its founder is dead, one of his three heirs is dead, and two sisters hold it.
CONFIRMEDThe trust and its apparatus: the girls’ schools, three free hospitals, Prem Mandir, the founder’s and Vishakha Tripathi’s deaths, and the two sisters who lead now. ASSERTEDA January 2014 press report that the son’s branch was moving on the trust, denied by the sect within days; no case has followed.
A single religious trust worth billions of rupees runs a chain of girls’ schools, three free hospitals, and a Rs 150 crore temple. It is headquartered at Mangarh, in Kunda, Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh. Diaspora charities raise money abroad and send it here. The founder is dead. One of his three chosen heirs is dead. His son’s branch is said to be moving on what remains.
Ram Kripalu Tripathi died on November 15, 2013. Followers knew him as Kripalu Maharaj. He left a religious trust worth billions of rupees, run from Mangarh in Kunda, Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh. The trust is old. It began in 1970 as the Sadhna Bhavan Trust. It carries the name Jagadguru Kripalu Parishat now, shortened to JKP. The schools, the hospitals, the temple, and the money from abroad all run through it.
CONFIRMEDThe 1970 founding as the Sadhna Bhavan Trust, the Jagadguru Kripalu Parishat name it carries today, and the founder’s death on November 15, 2013 are drawn from the JKP and Kripalu Maharaj reference records.
The apparatus is charitable, and it is large. JKP Education runs the Kripalu Balika girls’ schools, registered under PAN AABTJ6442L. Jagadguru Kripalu Chikitsalaya runs three free hospitals that treat patients at no charge. The first opened at Mangarh in 2003. The second opened at Barsana in 2007. Both opened while the founder was alive. The third opened at Vrindavan in 2015, after his death. In Vrindavan the trust also built Prem Mandir, a temple that cost roughly Rs 150 crore and opened in 2012, one year before the founder died. The diaspora charities that raise money abroad send it into this apparatus. That is where it lands.
CONFIRMEDThe JKP Education girls’ schools, the three free hospitals opened in 2003, 2007, and 2015, and Prem Mandir’s 2012 opening are documented in the JKP record; the roughly Rs 150 crore cost is given as an approximation.
Three towns carry the trust. Mangarh in Pratapgarh holds the headquarters and the 2003 hospital. Barsana holds the 2007 hospital. Vrindavan holds the 2015 hospital and Prem Mandir. One trust runs all three.
CONFIRMEDThe split across Mangarh, Barsana, and Vrindavan, each town’s hospital, and Prem Mandir at Vrindavan track the JKP and Vishakha Tripathi records.
In 2002 the founder settled who would run all of it. He installed his three unmarried daughters as co-presidents: Vishakha, Shyama, and Krishna Tripathi. He did not install his son. Three unmarried daughters now sat over a trust worth billions of rupees. Eleven years later he died, and the three women held the trust together.
In 2002 he made his three daughters co-presidents. By November 2024, one of the three was dead.
CONFIRMEDThat the founder’s three daughters, Vishakha, Shyama, and Krishna Tripathi, hold the presidency he appointed is confirmed by the JKP record and Vishakha Tripathi’s biography.
On November 24, 2024, Vishakha Tripathi died in a crash on the Yamuna Expressway. The co-presidency fell from three to two. Shyama leads from Shyama Shyam Dham in Vrindavan. Krishna leads from Rangeeli Mahal in Barsana. The two surviving sisters sit at two of the trust’s own temple towns.
CONFIRMEDVishakha Tripathi’s death in the November 24, 2024 collision on the Yamuna Expressway, and Shyama and Krishna’s continuing leadership, sit on the JKP and biographical record.
The founder had a son, Ghanshyam. He was not one of the co-presidents. In January 2014, weeks after the founder’s death, a wire report said trustees alleged that Ghanshyam’s branch was trying to take over the multi-billion-rupee trust. JKP denied it three days later. No case followed, and nothing on the record reopened it after the 2024 crash. The founder wrote three names into the leadership in 2002: Vishakha, Shyama, and Krishna. The 2024 crash left two. Ghanshyam was never one of the three.
The trust is worth billions of rupees. That is the prize. The money still lands at Mangarh. Two sisters hold Mangarh now. A dead founder chose them, and passed over the son whose branch was reported, once, in 2014, to want in.
CONFIRMEDThe January 2014 report that Ghanshyam’s branch was moving on the trust and JKP’s statement three days later that it faced no family dispute are both documented in the press; no case is on the record.
In fairness. JKP has publicly rebutted the allegation that Ghanshyam’s branch is attempting to take over the trust. No court case over the succession sits on the public record, and the allegation stands as an allegation.
Sources. JKP charitable registrations and PAN AABTJ6442L; the trust’s public statements; press coverage of the 2002 succession, the November 24, 2024 crash on the Yamuna Expressway, and the takeover allegation.
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