Environmental activist Vimlendu Jha opposes Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and Art of Living’s massive World Culture Festival on the Yamuna floodplain. Like many others, he feels the massive event, expected to draw over 30 lakh people will damage the ecosystem in the area.

While speaking on the issue to The Quint, Vimlendu was accosted by one Swami Omjee of the Hindu Mahasabha. Omjee threatened Vimlendu with the same fate as murdered rationalists Narendra Dhabolkar, MM Kalburgi and Govind Pansare. He also called the environmentalist a “CIA agent”, “anti-national” and a “traitor”.

These threats and abuses were hurled while our cameras were rolling, but for Swami Omjee, that didn’t matter.