Tag: Bagala Dharmashala

The Orissa High Court in an interim order on Thursday made it clear that the court's final judgement will be the deciding factor in the Bagala Dharmashala land dispute.

Puri: Resentment is brewing among residents of Puri over district administration’s decision to allot Bagala Dharmashala land to hoteliers and private parties evicted under the ambitious heritage corridor project of the Odisha government. The shocking allegations came after Odisha Bridge Construction Corporation (OBCC) recently submitted a ‘layout plan’ of Bagala Dharmashala complex to Puri Konark […]

Puri: Row erupted in the pilgrim town of Puri following reports of district administration selling land of Bagala Dharmashal to various hoteliers and private parties. As per the reports, the land of the Dharmashala was divided into plots and was sold to six different hoteliers between August 5 and August 12. One of the sale […]

Puri: Following the uproar over sale of historic Bagala Dharmashala land to private parties under the Heritage Project rehabilitation scheme, the district administration issued a clarification on Wednesday. The Additional Collector of Puri, Vinay Kumar Das said, “The allegations that the district Collector has sold the land to other parties are completely baseless. All the […]

Bhubaneswar: The Puri Bagala Dharmashala land sale has taken a political turn with the BJP and the Congress alleging massive conspiracy in the name of rehabilitation and resettlement of the displaced.  “In the name of resettlement of the displaced, the State government hatched a conspiracy to loot the land,” alleged Congress leader, Satya Prakash Nayak. […]

Puri: The Puri district unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today kicked off a signature campaign in the pilgrim town in connection with the alleged illegal plotting and sale of Bagala Dharmashala land. The campaign was launched in each of the 32 wards in Puri and would be conducted aggressively on roads too. Following […]

Cuttack/Puri: The row over Bagala Dharmashala land further intensified after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Spokesperson, Sambit Patra filed a petition in the Orissa High Court on Tuesday demanding the Dharmashala land to be brought back to Lord Jagannath’s ownership. Alleging gross irregularities in handling Bagala Dharmashala land, Patra, in a press conference in Cuttack, […]

Puri: The Bagala Dharmashala land row fails to die down with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) deciding to launch a Padyatra from Puri to Bhubaneswar and meet the Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday. Sources said, the BJP leaders and workers begin their padyatra from Srimandir in Puri to the CM’s residence in Bhubaneswar to […]

Puri: Intensifying its protest against the Bagala Dharmashala land row, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will launch a Padyatra from Puri to Bhubaneswar and meet Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday. According to sources, the padytra will begin from Srimandir in Puri to the CM’s residence in Bhubaneswar. The members of the saffron party will […]

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court on Thursday sought reply from Odisha government on the entire controversy surrounding the Bagala Dharmashala land in Puri. While hearing a petition filed by Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) National Spokesperson, Sambit Patra, the Court asked the State government to submit a response on Lord Jagannath’s ownership on the Bagala Dharmashala […]

Bhubaneswar: The row over Puri Bagala Dharmashala land continues to intensify with agitating Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers launching a Padyatra that ended in a violent scuffle with Police. Hundreds of Commissionerate Police personnel stopped the BJP workers heading towards CM Naveen Patnaik’s residence on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar at Uttara Square resulting in a […]