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"Retract your blasphemous comment": TMC slams BJP's Sukunta Majumdar over
Updated : 11 months, 2 weeks ago IST
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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"Not right to call this temple as 'Dham'": Shankaracharya Avimukteshwarana
Updated : 1 year, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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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"No other place can be called Jagannath Dham": BJP MP Sambit Patra on Digh
Updated : 1 year, 1 month 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, 1 month 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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