ISKCON Rejects Gajapati Maharaja's Appeal on Rath Yatra Dates

Row over Rath Yatra abroad: After Puri royal’s latest salvo, ISKCON ‘bows out of discussion’

While head of Puri’s erstwhile royal family calls plans for Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra ‘untimely’, ISKCON maintains they are ‘as per the shastras’.

ISKCON rejects Puri temple's plea to reconsider holding Jagannath festivals on random dates - OrissaPOST

Bhubaneswar: The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) has rejected the plea of Puri’s Jagannath temple to “reconsider” holding Rath Yatra and other Jagannath festivals on random dates across the globe, and said it “respectfully bows out of the discussion once and for all”. An ISKCON spokesperson, on the other hand, said the organisation has been spreading Jagannath culture in over 100 countries for the last 60 years, and the …

ISKCON Rejects Gajapati Maharaja's Appeal on Rath Yatra Dates

Puri: The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) has declined an appeal by Gajapati Maharaja Dibyasingha Deb to align its global Rath Yatra celebrations with the traditional Odia calendar, stating that the matter stands concluded. In a letter dated July 7, 2026, ISKCON Governing Body Commission Chairman Madhusevita Dasa responded to the Gajapati Maharaja’s request, saying the organisation had nothing further to add to the discu…