Osho started a cult that had a more open attitude towards Hindu orthodoxy. He travelled throughout India as a vocal critic of socialism and Mahatma Gandhi in the 1960s and gained popularity.

He was viewed as a controversial mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher. Slate writes that in the original plan, the Rajneeshees were going to use Salmonella typhi, which causes typhoid fever and 'surely would have resulted in numerous fatalities.' And the salad-bar attacks were meant to simply be a trial run for a larger poisoning right before the election, likely through the town's water supply. Apparently at one point, 'Rajneeshee leaders considered flying a bomb-laden plane into the county courthouse in The Dalles. Osho Rajneesh was an Indian spiritual leader who founded the Rajneesh movement. House of Representatives on February 28th, 1985, 'indirectly accused the Rajneeshees of having caused the salmonella outbreaks in The Dalles the previous fall.' Congressman Weaver even went on to accuse the cult of having a laboratory in Rajneeshpuram, but his speech was written off as 'a rambling and incoherent speech delivered to a nearly empty chamber.' Conflicts between Rajneesh and law enforcement escalated. The sect became known as the Rajneesh movement and was at the center of numerous political controversies. According to The New Republic, Oregon Congressman Jim Weaver gave a speech to the U.S. In the 1970s, an Indian mystic named Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (also known as Osho) founded his own religious group with ashrams in India and the United States. However, this didn't stop people from speaking out. There is still no shortage of such people and still no shortage of 'Masters' who are only too happy to take them in. Residents of Wasco County maintained their suspicions, but without any hard evidence, there was little to incriminate Osho's followers. Oshos was a cult appealing to those who sought to bask in the radiance of an achieved master and they found fools gold rather than the real thing.

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