Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 07:00am on 13 Jun 2024,Thursday India
In its first Cabinet meeting, Odisha's new BJP government approved the re-opening of all four gates of Shree Jagannath Temple in Puri, effective early Thursday morning. Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi announced this decision, fulfilling a key BJP election promise. The gates had been closed since the COVID-19 pandemic under the previous BJD administration, causing inconvenience to devotees who could only enter through one gate. The government also established a corpus fund for the 12th-century shrine's immediate needs. This decision aims to ease access for devotees and address long-standing demands for the re-opening of the temple's gates.
