{"id":119019,"date":"2018-04-19T22:29:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T16:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=119019"},"modified":"2018-04-19T22:29:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T16:59:28","slug":"jagannath-temple-odisha-government-denies-reports-of-trinity-going-without-food-the-new-indian-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=119019","title":{"rendered":"Jagannath Temple: Odisha government denies reports of Trinity going without food | The New Indian Express"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BHUBANESWAR:\u00a0 The deadlock in the Assembly over delay in rituals of Lord \u00a0Jagannath and his siblings in Jagannath Temple at Puri came to an end on Wednesday with the State Government denying reports that the deities were deprived \u00a0of food.\u00a0Making a statement in the House, Law Minister Pratap Jena \u00a0admitted delay in performing rituals in the temple, but the deities were \u00a0offered food. \u201cI want to inform the members of the House that the deities were \u00a0not kept without food as reported. But, it is true that there was delay \u00a0in conducting the rituals,\u201d Jena said.<\/p>\n

Attributing the delay in conducting daily rituals since \u00a0Monday to a standoff between sevayats and temple administration, the \u00a0Minister said the Bhog prepared in the temple kitchen could not be \u00a0offered to deities on Bhog Mandap on Tuesday. As a result, the devotees \u00a0were deprived of getting Mahaprasad.\"\"<\/p>\n

However, all the Neetis of the deities were performed smoothly on Wednesday and preparations for Chandan Yatra were on as per schedule. \u201cThe temple administration is making all efforts to resolve \u00a0the crisis. Talks are on with the sevayats (temple servitors) and I am \u00a0hopeful of a solution soon,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Assembly witnessed repeated adjournments following noisy \u00a0scenes for the second day on Wednesday with opposition Congress protesting the State Government\u2019s failure in resolving the Sri Mandir row.<\/p>\n

As soon as the House assembled for the day, Congress legislators disrupted the proceedings by rushing into the well of the House and shouted slogans against the State Government while blaming the temple administration for failing to \u00a0restore normalcy in rituals of the deities.Speaker Pradip Kumar Amat adjourned the House three times, \u00a0first for one hour till 11.30 am, later till 12.50 pm and further till 4 \u00a0pm. The Speaker then called for an all party meeting during which \u00a0the Congress legislators demanded a statement either from Chief Minister \u00a0Naveen Patnaik or the Law Minister.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Congress chief whip Tara Prasad Bahinipati warned that \u00a0the party will not allow the House to function unless the Government \u00a0restores normalcy in Puri temple. \u00a0\u00a0\u201cLord Jagannath is the presiding deity of millions of Odias, \u00a0and the disturbances in the temple rituals have hurt their sentiment. \u00a0The State Government seems least bothered to resolve the crisis,\u201d \u00a0Bahinipati said.<\/p>\n

Expressing concern over politicisation of the temple row by the \u00a0opposition, senior BJD leader and former minister Damodar Rout said the administration should not get involved in the controversy as \u00a0the rituals and related matters are under the purview of Puri Gajapati \u00a0Dibyasingha Deb and Shankaracharya Nischalanand Saraswati.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BHUBANESWAR:\u00a0 The deadlock in the Assembly over delay in rituals of Lord \u00a0Jagannath and his siblings in Jagannath Temple at Puri came to an end on Wednesday with the State Government denying reports that the deities were deprived \u00a0of food.\u00a0Making a statement in the House, Law Minister Pratap Jena \u00a0admitted delay in performing rituals in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}