Gopal Goyal Kanda: Difference between revisions

Gopal Goyal Kanda was born on 29 December 1965 in Sirsa, Haryana, India,<ref name="Haryana Vidhan Sabha MLA profile">{{cite news|title=Haryana Vidhan Sabha MLA profile|publisher=Haryana Vidhan Sabha|year=2012|url=http://haryanaassembly.gov.in/MLADetails.aspx?MLAID=780}}</ref> where his father, Murli Dhar Kanda, was a lawyer.<ref name="singh">{{cite news |work=Sunday Guardian |url=http://www.sunday-guardian.com/investigation/religion-made-kanda-popular-in-sirsa-wealth-came-in-gurgaon |first=Abhimanyu |last=Singh |date=12 August 2012 |title=Religion made Kanda popular in Sirsa, wealth came in Gurgaon |accessdate=10 August 2017}}</ref> His ancestors were market traders and his surname, ''Kanda'', refers to the iron weights used by such people.<ref name="munshi">{{cite news |url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/the-rise-and-fall-of-sirsa-notorious-son-gopal-goyal-kanda/1/212469.html |title=The rise and fall of Sirsa's notorious son Gopal Goyal Kanda |work=India Today |first=Suhas |last=Munshi |date=9 August 2012 |accessdate=10 August 2017}}</ref> He lived with his family in a two-room apartment above their shop.<ref name="TOI20120810"/> They had connections with an influential local politician, [[Om Prakash Chautala]], and access to Tara Baba (died 2002), a reclusive local spiritual guru whom Kanda has subsequently done much to promote venerate.<ref name="singh"/>