Asaram Bapu is once again facing a controversy. In a public gathering on Dhuleti at Surat, Asaram Bapu’s English disciple James compared him with Prophet Muhammad on mike. Muslims have now demanded to arrest both James and Asaram Bapu for hurting sentiments of the Muslims.

On Dhuleti, at Surat’s Jahangirpura ahsram, English disciple James was called on the stage by Asaram Bapu. Soon after Asaram Bapu gave him a mike and told him to narrate his experience in short, James told the gathering, “Asaram Bapu is God, he is Buddha, he is Krishna, he is Muhammad, he is everything”.

As recording of this event appeared on a major TV news channel, a group of hardliner Muslims in central Gujarat’s Bharuch town came into action.

Bharuch based Arabic University Darul Ulum Gulshan e Ajmer’s Janab Muhammad Hanif Rifaqati, Dayadada’s Anjuman e Raza Mustufa’s Shabbir Ali Rizvi, Bharuch’s Kurja based Yusufbhai Shekh and Nabipur’s Hanfi Kitabghar’s Gulam Hafiz Nabipuri released a press statement protesting against comparison of Asaram with Muhammad made by Asaram devotee James.

A group of Muslims including Saiyad Amin, Bafatisha Divan, Munir Kheruwala, Muhammad Hussain Pathan also went to the district collector’s office with a memorandum demanding immediate arrest of Asaram Bapu and his discipline James for hurting sentiments of Muslims.

The TV channel had aired Asaram Bapu’s Dhuleti function to highlight alleged indecency performed by Asaram Bapu on the stage. The TV channel highlighted how James said Asaram Bapu his papa, how James’ ‘mother’ Anita who was also on the stage told Asaram Bapu ‘I Love You’ on a mike and how Asaram Bapu told Anita to say ‘Bapu is hot.’

However Muslims discovered another controversy on comparison of Prophet Muhammad with Asaram Bapu from the telecast.