Bengal BJP Chief Doubles Down on J.P. Nadda s Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Gaffe
Visiting a temple in Katwa, Nadda had claimed it was where the spiritual thinker had been initiated into faith. But the temple in question was constructed 305 years after Mahaprabhu s death.
J.P. Nadda and Dilip Ghosh, BJP s national and Bengal presidents respectively. Photo: Twitter/@JPNadda
Politics11/Jan/2021
Kolkata: On Saturday, Bharatiya Janata Party chief J.P. Nadda called the temple he had visited “the place where Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was initiated into faith”. The problem, reported local media, was that the saint died in 1534 and the temple Nadda visited was built in 1839.