Bhubaneswar, June 28 -- The inordinate delay in pulling Lord Jagannath's chariot, poor crowd management, devotees being injured in stampede, indiscriminate distribution of cordon passes during yesterday's Rath Yatra, have come as a major embarrassment for the State's BJP government.
The Opposition BJD and Congress have squarely blamed the Government machinery for the utter chaos during the pulling of chariots on the grand road in the pilgrim town of Puri.
Reacting to the mismanagement, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) President Naveen Patnaik, today expressed deep concern over the "inordinate delay" in pulling the Nandighosha chariot of Lord Jagannath.
"Such occurrence has besmirched Odisha's dignity before the World, and is not a good sign for the...