BHUBANESWAR: The alleged discovery of a collection of replica keys to the interior chamber of the Jagannath Temple's Ratna Bhandar (treasury) via the Puri district management on Wednesday has led to a fresh controversy.
Prominent voices from various quarters of the state have forged doubts over Puri collector Aravind Agarwal's declare that officials running underneath him stumbled upon a sealed envelope containing the replica keys in his administrative center's report room.
It was once Agarwal who in April introduced that the keys to the interior chamber of the Ratna Bhandar were not in the district treasury, the place they must were. "I closely followed the Jagannath Temple's affairs by virtue of my position as law minister between 2000 to 2009. In all that time, I never heard of there being any duplicate key to the Ratna Bhandar. Where are the original keys?" asked senior BJP chief Biswabhusan Harichandan, who served as law minister right through the BJD-BJP coalition executive.
The temple’s authentic information also make no mention concerning the presence of any replica keys of the treasury. The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA), too, has never spoken of any replica keys to the Ratna Bhandar’s inner chamber.
The SJTA on June 4 had issued a observation, a duplicate of which is with TOI, saying the Ratna Bhandar had two chambers — inner and outer. The 3 keys of the interior chamber are meant to be kept in the district treasury. The outer chamber also has 3 sets of keys — one each with the Puri king, the temple management and the Bhandar Mekap (a servitor who takes care of the treasury).
“We had been at a loss for words when the collector introduced that he had discovered a sealed envelope with the ‘replica keys of the interior Ratna Bhandar’ written on it. In my 30 years of carrier in the Jagannath Temple’s administrative center, I've by no means heard concerning the presence of any replica keys to the treasury,” a temple authentic said.
Agarwal, who may be the deputy leader administrator of the Jagannath Temple management, did not resolution questions at the matter. Incumbent law minister Pratap Jena, too, did not discuss at the controversy brought on via Wednesday’s incidents.
“I do know that there are a number of questions in folks’s mind. I'm confident that the judicial commission set up via the federal government will in finding the truth after carrying out its inquiry within 3 months,” Jena told the media right here.
As devotees are curious to grasp concerning the keys, some clergymen said the Ratna Bhandar has giant locks. Each key would be no longer less than 30 cm lengthy.
Prominent voices from various quarters of the state have forged doubts over Puri collector Aravind Agarwal's declare that officials running underneath him stumbled upon a sealed envelope containing the replica keys in his administrative center's report room.
It was once Agarwal who in April introduced that the keys to the interior chamber of the Ratna Bhandar were not in the district treasury, the place they must were. "I closely followed the Jagannath Temple's affairs by virtue of my position as law minister between 2000 to 2009. In all that time, I never heard of there being any duplicate key to the Ratna Bhandar. Where are the original keys?" asked senior BJP chief Biswabhusan Harichandan, who served as law minister right through the BJD-BJP coalition executive.
The temple’s authentic information also make no mention concerning the presence of any replica keys of the treasury. The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA), too, has never spoken of any replica keys to the Ratna Bhandar’s inner chamber.
The SJTA on June 4 had issued a observation, a duplicate of which is with TOI, saying the Ratna Bhandar had two chambers — inner and outer. The 3 keys of the interior chamber are meant to be kept in the district treasury. The outer chamber also has 3 sets of keys — one each with the Puri king, the temple management and the Bhandar Mekap (a servitor who takes care of the treasury).
“We had been at a loss for words when the collector introduced that he had discovered a sealed envelope with the ‘replica keys of the interior Ratna Bhandar’ written on it. In my 30 years of carrier in the Jagannath Temple’s administrative center, I've by no means heard concerning the presence of any replica keys to the treasury,” a temple authentic said.
Agarwal, who may be the deputy leader administrator of the Jagannath Temple management, did not resolution questions at the matter. Incumbent law minister Pratap Jena, too, did not discuss at the controversy brought on via Wednesday’s incidents.
“I do know that there are a number of questions in folks’s mind. I'm confident that the judicial commission set up via the federal government will in finding the truth after carrying out its inquiry within 3 months,” Jena told the media right here.
As devotees are curious to grasp concerning the keys, some clergymen said the Ratna Bhandar has giant locks. Each key would be no longer less than 30 cm lengthy.
Mystery of Ratna Bhandar 'duplicate' keys deepens
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