A video of Lord Jagannath’s idol being ferried in a pick-up van in a disrespectful manner along with a bunch of bamboo and wood on a national highway in Odisha’s Balasore district has gone viral on social media, drawing strong condemnation from the netizens.<\/p>\n
A youth named Binay Pradhan, who was travelling on the Bhubaneswar-Jaleswar highway on Thursday, had noticed the idol tied to a rope hanging from the van and filmed the moment, which later went viral.<\/p>\n
As the video went viral, netizens strongly condemned the careless manner in which the idol was being carried and demanded an apology from the persons responsible for it.<\/p>\n
Later, the tent house owner and his staff visited a Jagannath temple in Jaleswar and begged for forgiveness for their mistake.<\/p>\n
The tent owner said the idol was installed in a Ganesh puja pandal in Balasore and after immersion of the Ganesh idol, the Jagannath idol along with other materials were being transported to his hometown Jaleswar.<\/p>\n
“I was out of station on that day. As my workers are non-Odia people, they didn\u2019t know about our sentiments with Lord Jagannath. Whatever my workers have done is really disgraceful. I would like to apologise for hurting the sentiments of Jagannath devotees. I will never commit such mistake in future,” the tent house owner said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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