India, May 20 -- Apart from targeting Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader and Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik's presumptive successor VK Pandian in the public meetings at Angul and Cuttack on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi raked up the issue of the missing key of the Ratna Bhandar, the treasury of the 12th century Jagannath temple in Puri containing the gold and jewelleries offered by devotees across the world through years.

In April 2018, officials of the temple could not find the keys of the Ratna Bhandar, situated near the sanctum sanctorum of the temple, as they proceeded to do an inspection of its structural condition as per an order of the Orissa high court. Following a hue and cry, Patnaik ordered a judicial inquiry into the m...