NO CAR FESTIVAL

A dreadfully tearful & tremendously helpful judgement delivered by Supreme court on 18th june clearly mentioned that on 23rd june  no car festival would be there; neither at Puri nor in the rest 29 districts of  Odisha.  Categorically, the hon’ble chief justice told; giving permission to car festival means, lord sri Jagannath will not excuse them. Pandemic corona’s spreading is huge & to keep common man’s interest & safety too, no “RATH YATRA” would be held this time. We, the people of Odisha, can look at history. After continuous car festival of 244 years, on 2020 corona is able to stop it which will be a new page in the history of SRI MANDIR. According to “madala panji” within a span of 452 years of “SANKHA KHETRA”, Ratha yatra stoped 32 times due to different invaders attack like TAKKI KHAN, MOHEMMED BEG, EKRAM KHAN, HASIM KHAN etc. . Due to continuous attack of KALAPAHAD from 1568 to 1577 car festival totally stopped. Society can’t ignore war, natural calamity & pandemic. Still many people, even GAJAPATI grieved over the above judgement reacting affirmatively to respect supreme court judgement. Last but not the least, Sri SANKARACHARYA’S opinion will be asked by temple managing committee to maintain social distance & to have car festival’s ritual in shortest possible form inside the temple with miniscule sevayats to keep the long tradition only.

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