Tag: Daru Selection Discrepancies

Bhubaneswar: Claiming that the fixing of ‘daru’ (holy log) selection during the 2015 Nabakalebara festival has hurt religious sentiments of crores of Odias, the Odisha Civil Society today demanded a CBI probe into the whole episode. As ruling party leaders and bureaucrats are involved in such discrepancies, attempts are being made to suppress the matter, […]

Puri: Raking up the issue of ‘fixing’ in selection of sacred timber  ‘daru’ used for making idols of the deities at Puri Jagannath temple during the 2015 Nabakalebara festival once again, the secretary of Daitapati Niyog Premananda Das Mohapatra demanded a detailed probe into such discrepancies. Mohapatra questioned how all the three sacred trees were […]