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.
Union Minister and West Bengal BJP President Sukanta Majumdar alleged that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had politicised Lord Jagannath and Rath Yatra in Digha was being organised to divide Hindu votes.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee visited Lord Jagannath temple in Digha in West Bengal on Thursday, ahead of Jagannath Rath Yatra scheduled to start on June 27.
The Jagannath Temple in Digha, West Bengal, became center of another controversy as the Trinamool Congress slammed Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar over his recent comments on West Bengal government's administration of the temple.
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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'.
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.
Reacting to the row over naming the newly built 'Jagannath Digha' temple as 'Jagannath Dham', Odisha BJP President Manmohan Samal stated that there is clarity in everyone's mind that Jagannath Dham is in Puri and it was wrong to name Digha temple as Dham.
In the wake of protests over the newly inaugurated Jagannath Temple in Digha being called Jagannath Dham, the word Dham was replaced with temple in the signboards.