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Lord! Stuck on Grand Road
The New Indian Express Bhubaneswar
|June 28, 2025
Thanks to chaos, uncontrollable crowd and gross mismanagement, the holy Trinity is still far from reaching Gundicha temple. Lord Jagannath stops barely 10 metres from Singhadwara
Inexplicable delay marked the Rath Yatra as none of the three chariots could even be pulled half the distance from Shree Jagannath Temple en route to Gundicha Temple and chaos reigned supreme at the annual festival of the holy Trinity on Friday.
Erratic movement of Lord Balabhadra's Taladhwaja and an uncontrollable crowd triggered a chain of events in which Nandighosha, Lord Jagannath's chariot, which is the last to be pulled, could barely move a few metres and had to halt for the night along Badadanda (Grand Road) at around 7.45 pm.
By the end of the day, which was well into the evening, Taladhwaja was stationed at Balgandi Chhak, while Devi Subhadra's Darpadalana had to be stopped at Marichikot. Lord Jagannath's chariot was pulled for just about 10 metres in a ritualistic manner and halted close to Singhadwara (Lions' Gate) of Shree Jagannath temple.
Temple chief administrator Arabinda Padhee informed that pulling of the three chariots will resume at 9.30 am on Saturday.
This story is from the June 28, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Bhubaneswar.
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