Bhubaneswar: Puri Gajapati Maharaja Dibyasingha Deb has once again written to the President of the ISKCON Governing Body Commission (GBC), Gobardhan Das, urging the organization to reconsider its decision to conduct Rath Yatra on dates not aligned with traditional Jagannath temple practices.

In his latest letter, the Gajapati Maharaja emphasized that ISKCON temples across the country should observe Rath Yatra within the nine-day period beginning from Ashadha Shukla Dwitiya, as per scriptural and traditional guidelines followed by the Shree Jagannath Temple, Puri.

This comes after repeated appeals by the Gajapati, who is the Chairman of the Shree Jagannath Temple Managing Committee, expressing deep concern that ISKCON’s deviation from the sacred tradition of Mahaprabhu’s Rath Yatra, the

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