Puri: Expressing deep anguish over conducting Rath Yatra in Houston city of America by ISKON, followers have demanded that ISKON activities in India be banned.
Aditya Vahini an youth organation of the followers of Puri Sakaracharya has the Central government and the State government to ban the organisation.
Aditya Vahini president Pandit Matru Prasad Mishra, in a video press release said that ISKON has celebrated Rath Yatra defying the rituals of Lord Jaganath. Stating the Rath Yatra falls in the month of July, he said ISKON has held it in November despite the objections from the Puri Temple Administration, Puri Gajapati Maharaj and Sankarachrya, who is the custodian of Puri Jaganath rituals.
Pandit Mishra has said that the ISKON had assured to cancel the Rath Yatra programme to the temple administration but has conducted it deceiving all the devotees of Lord Jaganath in the world.
Condemning the ISKON he has urged the India government to ban the organisation.
