Sambit Patra’s ‘slip of tongue’ lands Lord Jagannath on list of ‘Modi Bhakts’, BJP in the soup

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New Delhi: Sambit Patra, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate for the Puri Lok Sabha constituency in Odisha inadvertently kicked off a row Monday, after he mistakenly said that Lord Jagannath is a devotee of Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

Patra was speaking to reporters after the prime ministers roadshow in Puri, when he told local channel Kanak News, Lakhs of people have gathered to see Modi..

Lord Jagannath is a devotee (bhakt) of Modi, and we are Modis family..

This has hurt the sentiments and demeaned the faith of crores of Jagannatha bhaktas and Odias across the world, Patnaik wrote in a post on social media platform X...

I gave number of bytes today to multiple media channels after the massive success of Shri Narendra Modijis Road Show in Puri today, everywhere I mentioned that Modi ji is an ardent Bhakt of Shri Jagannath Mahaprabhu by mistake during one of the bytes, I pronounced just the opposite I know you too know and understand this Sir, lets not make an issue out of a nonexistent issue we all have slip of tongue sometimes, Patra wrote on X...

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