Lucknow, Feb. 14 -- Weeks after a row between the Mela administration and Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati during the Magh Mela in Prayagraj, chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said Shankaracharya is not an ordinary title that everyone can assume.

The chief minister was participating in the discussion on the motion of thanks to the Governor's address.

"The Shankaracharya tradition is governed by dignity, not by whims and fancies of any person," Adityanath said in the assembly,

"The position of Shankaracharya is considered the highest and most sacred in India's Sanatan tradition. It is not an ordinary title that anyone can assume," h said.

Replying to the leader of Opposition Mata Prasad Pandey's allegation that "Shankaracharya...