In 2007 a tribal spiritual Hindu monk Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati, who spent four decades in of tribal welfare, accused World Vision chief of Orissa India, Radhakanta Nayak, also a former civil servant and Rajya Sabha member from Congress, for the violence and attack to eliminate him. The swami also said that World Vision was pumping money into India for religious conversion and also during 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, which is hidden from public discourse. He also said that World Vision was one of the top donors to NGOs in India and World Vision India was one of the top recipient of funds for Christian missionary activity in India in an interview. N in 2008 he was gunned down along with four disciples at kanyashram (Girls school) at Tumudibandh Ashram, about 100 km from Phulbani, the district headquarters of Kandhmal district on Hindu festive day of Janmashtami by a group of 30–40 armed men, and VHP alleged that the plot to kill was hatched in presence of Radhakanta Nayak, who claimed that charges were false.