In a 3-km long stretch of the big danda street between Jagannath and Gundcha temples in Puri, Odisha, Aniran Bose gave his neck to his neck to better look over the head of the head. It is dripping, and the sound of it, Ghati (Cymbals) – The red dress is played by some priests – loudly and loudly.
Suddenly, the crowd moves forward, their hands got up in prayer, as they see what they were waiting for: Lord Jagannath was emerging from his 12th century temple and moving towards the Gundcha temple in his chariot, Nandaghosh.
“We are happy that there is one Jagannath Temple in Digha But there is nothing compared to the Puri temple, “Bose, a native of West Bengal, says, as chariots pass.” It is the original seat of the gods, and it would be immature to compare the Rath Yatra in Digha with this. ,
Bose covered a distance of 500 km from Kolkata, so that the Hindu Lord Jagannath’s grand annual Rath Yatra, or the Rath Festival is witness. According to Hindu mythology, Prabhu and his siblings-Bhagwan Balabhadra and Goddess Subhadra-Un-Gundicha, were placed on a nine-day annual soxer in Gundicha Temple. The gods last till the ‘Bahuda Yatra’ – or return to return on 5 July this year.
Several VVIPs were seen in the annual religious program in Puri, including Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat (PTI).
For the city of Puri’s temple, the event is a grand, which is watching millions of devotees not only from Odisha but also from neighboring West Bengal. But this year the journey is particularly important: it comes at a time when there is a line between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Odisha and Trinumool Congress (TMC) of West Bengal, which is a replica of the 12th century of Puri, which is a Bangalath temple in April 30 this year.
West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee was also among thousands of devotees to attend the annual religious program in Digha, while the Puri incident saw several VVIPs – including Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, and Odisha Governor Hari Babu Campati and Chief Minister Mohanjes.
Banerjee is in the city city since Wednesday. A major ritual More ready With a golden broom, this ritual is traditionally performed by Puri’s predecessor Dibsingh Deb.
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In the journey, the crowd moves towards chariots such as ornate temples, which are being drawn by millions of devotees. In the form of three chariots – Nandaghosh of Lord Jagannath with its red and yellow umbrella, Kali and Lal Devdalana of Goddess Subhadra and Hari and Lal Taldwaja of Lord Balabhadra – near, weeping for “Jai Jagannath”, crying out.
In the journey, the crowd moves towards chariots such as ornate temples, which are being drawn by millions of devotees.
Nandaghosh More ready On Friday, it was drawn only a few meters away, the authorities citing delay in rituals. As soon as the crowd was swept away in Puri for Purana, the Odisha government dragged all the stops in the temple city for the annual program and pulled all the stops. Odisha’s BJP Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi also instructed the administration to make this year’s visit “incident-free”.
There were reports about people complaining of suffocation and collapse during the Rath Yatra. Ambulances were called to take some devotees to the hospital.
When asked, Odisha Health Minister Mukesh Mahaling convicted humidity for “one or two” devotees.
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“The rescue team immediately took him to the hospital and his condition is now absolutely normal. Adequate arrangements are being made in all health centers,” he said.
Devotees at the annual Rath Yatra Festival in Puri on Friday. (PTI)
Meanwhile, the row on the naming of the Digha temple continued on the day before the Rath Yatra, Puri Shankaracharya Nishalanand Saraswati claimed that the new temple was just a means of generating revenue and “there was nothing with devotion to Lord Jagannath”.
A month after the Chief Minister of Odisha wrote to his West Bengal counterpart, the remarks came out that the naming of the Digha Temple ‘Jagannath Dham’ “hurt” the sentiments of millions of devotees.
The same month, Puri Royal, who was also the Chairman of the Shri Jagannath Temple Management Committee, also slammed the Government of West Bengal, claiming that “scripture prohibitory orders and long -established tradition” step quantity to violate “.
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