[citation needed] He has attracted public attention for staging suicide attempts as a form of political protest.

To get attention for this campaign, Pathak climbed to the top of a 300-foot tower in Varanasi and threatened to jump to death.

[2] Pathak led a Vishwa Hindu Sena group in Varanasi to oppose the screening of the film Girlfriend (2004), which dealt with subject matter about lesbians.

The film was controversial to Pathak for having the line "... if a Brahmin or God sleeps with a woman she is blessed", which he interpreted to be oppressive to women's rights.

[5] Pakistani Ghazal virtuoso Ghulam Ali was invited to perform at Sankat Mochan music festival in 2016 which Pathak did not like.

[7] In 2017, Pathak announced that he with his follower will worship at the controversial temple Mata Shringar Gauri and when Police and the administration arrested him to stop him from doing so, as a protest he again tried to attempt suicide by cutting veins of his hand.