Gajapati Maharaja Writes To President Murmu, PM Modi Over ISKCON Untimely Jagannath Yatra Abroad

Puri: Gajapati Maharaja Dibyasingha Deba has written to President Daroupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking their intervention to stop ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) from organising Rath Yatra and Snana Yatra outside the prescribed ritual calendar at overseas locations. Gajapati Maharaja also sought time to meet the President and the Prime Minister to discuss the issue, alleging that the repeated observance of the rituals on dates not in accordance with Jagannath temple...