PM Narendra Modi’s wife Jashodaben visits Puri for darshan of Lord Jagannath

Puri, June 28 : Jashodaben, the wife of Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Puri on Tuesday to avail the darshan of Lord Jagannath at the Adapa Mandap.

She was accompanied by senior journalist Kishore Dwivedi, her brother Ashok Modi and social activist Arundhati Devi.

They arrived in Puri at around 10 AM on Tuesday and had darshan of Lord Jagannath before moving to Srimandir to see the ‘Parsva Devadevis (other deities)’. She later visited the Sun temple at Konark and Lingaraj temple in Bhubaneswar.

She left Bhubaneswar in the evening.

Puri is preparing for the Bahuda Yatra, the homecoming of Lord Jagannath and his siblings- Devi Subhadra and Lord Balabhadra. The deities will return in their respective grand chariots which will be pulled by devotees from Gundicha temple to Srimandir.

-OTV