Maha Kumbh Mela 2025: Who is Abhay Singh aka IIT Baba, who was expelled from Madi Ashram?

Abhay Singh aka IIT Baba, suddenly disappeared from the Mahakumbh Mela 2025 and has broken his silence on his sudden disappearance in an interview.

Speaking to Aaj Tak about the Mahakumbh Mela and his disappearance, Abhay was quoted saying, “The operators of the Madi Ashram asked me to leave at night. They think I’ve become famous and might expose something about them, so they claim I’ve gone for secret meditation. Those people are talking nonsense.”

He says his ‘disappearance’ from the 16 Madi Ashram was false news and he was asked to leave the Aashram.

Who is the IIT BABA?

And in an interview with ANI, Abhay Singh revealed, “I was born in Haryana’s Jhajjar. I did my schooling there then I started preparing for JE, after which I went to IIT Mumbai for Aerospace Engineering. Life took different turns, changed my path from engineering to arts and kept changing my paths until I came to the ‘final truth,’ that’s how I would like to describe it.”

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He added, “ I realised that my life took a lot of turns during my time there in aerospace engineering. There was a point where I started searching for a ‘meaning to life’ and finally then I found something which is destiny. If you read the lives of many people, you will find that there is no choice, you don’t choose bhakti, there is just a rujhaan, a connection to all this.”

Abhay Singh has studied aerospace engineering from IIT Bombay as per his interview with CNN News 18. He quit engineering to devote his life to god and spirituality.