The Gorekhanath Temple servitors and priests have started an indefinite stir opposing temple management trust's illegal decision to lock the kitchen room from January 1.
The protestors claimed that before locking the kitchen, trust board did not consult with the working servitors.
Managing trustee Sub Collector Jagatsinghpur and Tehsildar Raghunathpur have not ordered closing of the kitchen but a few officials from management office at temple premises have illegally shut the kitchen room. Reports said that following the servitors stir and closure of kitchen, many devotees expressed unhappiness being deprived of Prasad and Bhog.
The servitor’s body prepared a 10 -point charter of demands for the temple trust to fulfill or else the agitation would be intensified, said servitors leaders Ramesh Chandra Panda, Birakishor Dash and Rashmi Ranjan Panda.