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BJP slams Bengal CM for visiting "tourist spot" Digha Jagannath temple, sa
Updated : 11 months, 1 week ago IST
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and West Bengal Assembly Leader of Opposition (LoP) Suvendu Adhikari criticised Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for visiting the Jagannath temple in Digha, calling it a "tourist spot" and asserting that Puri in Odisha is the real Dham of Lord Jagannath.
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BJD's Debi Prasad Mishra defends Jagannath Dham, responds to Digha temple
Updated : 1 year ago IST
BJD VP Debi Prasad Mishra defends Jagannath Dham's sanctity, clarifies Darubrahma wood issue, and addresses party's new team formation. BJP's Manmohan Samal and CM Mamata Banerjee also weigh in on the Digha Jagannath Temple naming controversy.
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"Not right to call this temple as 'Dham'": Shankaracharya Avimukteshwarana
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Shankaracharya Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati on Tuesday spoke about the naming of the newly built Digha temple as 'Jagannath Dham and stated that a 'Dham' can only be in one place, and it would not be right to call this temple as 'Dham'.
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"Writing Dham does not make it a Dham," says historian Anil Dhir on Jagann
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Historian Anil Dhir has downplayed the controversy surrounding the newly constructed Jagannath temple in Digha, calling it an issue that is being unnecessarily exaggerated and clarified calling a place a 'Dham' does not grant it religious status equivalent to the traditional four Dhams.
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"An insult to Maha Prabhu, sanatanis will not tolerate": BJP's Suvendu Adh
Updated : 1 year ago IST
"This is not a Jagannath temple but a cultural centre, do not spread false info. It (Digha temple) has been built with government money, Rs 250 crore, look at the tender, work orders. It is clear in those that it not a temple but a cultural centre. It is an insult to Maha Prabhu, I am also a
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"Why is there so much anger?": Mamata Banerjee on Digha Jagannath Temple c
Updated : 1 year ago IST
This comes after West Bengal government, led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, referred to the Digha temple as "Jagannath Dham," a term traditionally reserved for the 12th-century Jagannath Temple in Puri, Odisha.
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Odisha Law Minister urges Jagannath Temple administration to conduct inter
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Odisha Law Minister Prithiviraj Harichandan on Sunday said that the participation of Jagannath Puri Temple servitors in the consecration ceremony of Digha Jagannath Temple has become an "emotional and sentimental thing" for all devotees of Lord Jagannath.
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"Unnecessary controversy by West Bengal government": BJD Vice President Pr
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Vice President Prasanna Acharya on Sunday objected to the West Bengal government calling the newly inaugurated Jagannath temple in Digha a 'dham' and said that they are "unnecessarily" creating a controversy.
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TMC slams BJP over Digha Jagannath temple row, questions party's 'Hindutva
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Amid the escalating controversy over the newly inaugurated Jagannath Temple in West Bengal's Digha, Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Jay Prakash Majumdar sharply criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for questioning the temple's establishment, accusing the party of hypocrisy in its 'Hin
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"No other place can be called Jagannath Dham": BJP MP Sambit Patra on Digh
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Sambit Patra on Saturday objected to the West Bengal government naming a newly constructed Jagannath temple in Digha as "Jagannath Dham." He argued that it is impossible to call any other place Jagannath Dham because there is only one in the world, located in
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"Started an internal investigation," Odisha Minister Prithviraj Harichanda
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Odisha Minister Prithviraj Harichandan on Saturday claimed that the West Bengal government is creating confusion by naming a newly constructed Jagannath temple in Digha as "Jagannath Dham."
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Puri senior Daitapati welcomes Digha Jagannath Temple, urges restraint ove
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Senior Daitapati servitor (sevayat) of the Puri Jagannath Temple, Ramakrishna Das Mahapatra, has welcomed the construction of the newly inaugurated Jagannath Temple in Digha, West Bengal, and appealed for restraint in stirring controversy over its naming.
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