Reopen Jagannath Temple Ratna Bhandar , Saluja urges Govt

Bhubaneswar, July 30(Reporters Today Bureau): Congress leader Santosh Singh Saluja has  demanded the State government to reopen Ratna Bhandar of Jagannath temple at Puri in Odisha.

Speaking at Zero Hour in the Odisha assembly on Friday, Saluja said the devotees of Lord Jagannath wanted to know whether the jewellery and other valuables of the deity is in safe custody or not.

He urged the Speaker to ask the state government to open the Ratna Bhandar and make necessary renovation of the treasury. Saluja also demanded for inventory of valuables inside the Ratna Bhandar and make it public.

Further, he requested Speaker B.K. Arukha to direct the state government to table the report of the Justice Raghubir Dash Commission, which was constituted to probe the incident relating to the missing of the keys of Ratna Bhandar of the temple.