Mamata to be present at 'Maha Yajna' in Digha's new Jagannath Temple, day ahead of inauguration

ARRANGEMENTS are in place for the ‘Maha Yajna’ on Tuesday evening at the newly built Jagannath Temple in West Bengal's seaside tourist town of Digha, and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will take part in the rituals, officials said.

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The Jagannath Temple, a replica of the 12th-century shrine in Puri, is scheduled to be inaugurated on Wednesday on the auspicious occasion of the "Akshay Trithiya’. Digha is around 350 km from Puri.

"The CM will participate in the ‘Maha Yajna' at the temple. There will a number of rituals during the puja,” an official at the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) told PTI. At the ‘Maha Yajna’, around 100 quintals of ‘aam kath’ (mango wood) and ‘bael kath’ (bilva wood), and two quintals of ghee will be used, another official said. On Wednesday, the 'Pran Pratishtha’ (consecration) of the idols of the deities will take place, he said. Sacred water from various pilgrimage destinations has already been brought to the temple for the rituals, the official said.