Kolkata, June 26 -- Even as the Trinamool Congress and BJP pulled the long ropes of the Lord's Chariot in different directions - one towards ancient Puri and the other towards the beach town of Digha - on the eve of Jagannath's Rath Yatra Day, Bengal Opposition Leader Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday offered to get distributed the "genuine and not the duplicate" Maha Prasadam among the people of Bengal.
"We will distribute the Maha Prasad of Lord Jagannath of Puri Dham in Bengal for five days, this prasad will the real and genuine Maha Prasad and not the ones that have been purchased from the 'chacha's Halal' shops," Adhikari said.
The decision to distribute the Maha Prasad - for the first time in Bengal - came weeks after the Chief Minister a...