Gorakhpur, May 3 -- Shankaracharya Swami Avimukteshwarananda Saraswati of Jyotirpeeth began his 81-day ' Gau Seva Yatra' from Gorakhpur on Sunday morning. The program began with prayers at the Bharat Mata Temple in Sahara Estate.

Swami Avimukteshwarananda said, "We haven't come here for Yogi Adityanath. This place is named after cow protection. It's the place of penance of Guru Gorakhnath, so we're starting our journey from here. If we only wanted to inform him, we could have done it in any other district in the state, and the information would have reached him."This journey, which began in Gorakhpur Rural, will conclude at the Gorakhpur City Assembly today. The primary objective of this journey is to promote cow protection and raise publi...