There was uproar about senior congressman Jagdish Tytler’s visit to Jagganath temple of Puri during his recent visit to Orissa. The members of ruling BJD party raised the question challenging Tytler was not a Hindu, therefore not eligible to enter into the Santo sanctum of Hindus.
Jagdish Tytler has clarified that he is a Hindu and already visited Jaggannath temple four times earlier. While he was talking to media, the members of the ruling BJD and Congress parties had a verbal duel inside the state assembly. While the opposition criticized that the ruling party has lost its secular credentials, the ruling party tried to nail Jagdish Tytler that he was one of the main accused in anti-Sikh riots in 1984 and therefore he has ceased to be neither a Hindu nor a Sikh. One of the members of the state’s assembly even went to the extent of saying that Tytler had recently been converted to Christianity.
Jagdish Tytler had visited the famous temple of Puri on 16th March, which brought in its wake protests particularly from the members of the state assembly of that area, terming him a non-Hindu and ineligible to enter into the temple.
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