rajkot bjp councillor and former standing committee chairman narendra solanki has decided to renounce the world and become a priest from june 1 with the blessings of jivaraj bapu of satadhar a pilgrimage centre in junagadh solanki started a free kitchen for pilgrims near chotila in surendranagar district two years ago and named it aapa giga no otlo a real estate developer solanki told mediapersons on tuesday that he would devote his life for humanity and serving the people the formal ceremony for his becoming a mahant will take place on june 1 at chotila in the presence of religious leaders from across the state thereafter he will be known as narendra bapu sources said solanki has a good hold in the kadiya mason community and had demanded a ticket to contest the last assembly polls in the state he had become inactive in politics after he was denied the ticket solanki was summoned by rajkot police in connection with the selfimmolation by five nepalese last year as closed circuit television footage showed his presence at rajkot municipal corporation premises when the five nepalese took the extreme step