A Trinamul Congress-backed outfit of Hindu priests put up around 100 flexes in and around East Burdwan’s Katwa on Monday asking people whether they would forgive those who had distorted facts regarding Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s temple of initiation.

The posters by the West Bengal State Sanatan Brahman Trust refer to BJP national president J.P. Nadda’s faux pas when he claimed at a rally in Katwa on Saturday that he had offered prayers at the Jagadanandapur temple where Chaitanya Mahaprabhu had received initiation.

“Mitron, aaj main Radha Govindji ke puratan mandir mei gaya, jahan Chaitanya Mahaprabhu ney diksha li thi (Friends, today I went to an old temple of Radha Govind, where Chaitanya Mahaprabhu received initiation),” Nadda said, oblivious to the fact that the initiation of the saint had taken place in 1510, which is 329 years before the Jagadanandapur temple came up.

If Nadda had on Saturday handed over ammunition to Trinamul, which has been attacking the BJP for its lack of connect with Bengal’s culture, the saffron party’s Bengal chief Dilip Ghosh caused further damage on Sunday by asserting that Chaitanya received initiation at the Jagadanandapur temple because “he” said it and so it was right.

“BJP-r sarba Bharatiya sabhapati JP Nadda bollen, Jagadanandapurer Radha Govinda mandir shri Chaitanyadev er diksha sthal. ‘Apni bolle hobe na, ami bolchi otai thik’ sangbadikder bollen BJP-r rajya sabhapati Dilip Ghosh. Mahaprabhu Shri Chaitanyadev ke niye opobyakshakarider apnara ki khoma korben? (BJP national president JP Nadda said that the Radha Govinda temple was the site of initiation of Shri Chaitanyadev. BJP’s state president told the journalists ‘Your claim does not make it so. What I am saying is right’. Will you forgive those who have distorted facts about Shri Chaitanyadev?),” the flex reads.

“We have already put up 100 such large size flexes in and around Katwa town. We have ordered more than thousand flexes to put them up at nearby villages. We can’t accept that the national leader of the BJP will distort facts and their leader in the state will force us to agree to what is wrong. It has hurt the sentiments of the people of Katwa and those who love Chaitanya Mahaprabhu,” said Alok Banerjee, Katwa unit secretary of the priests’ outfit.

Sources said an instruction from Trinamul had already reached the party leadership in Katwa and East Burdwan to take the campaign on the distortion of facts about Chaitanya to the people.

“The priests’ outfit have set up flexes and we will hold small rallies at villages to let people know how the BJP is distorting fact about Chaitanya,” said Rabindranath Chatterjee, the Trinamul MLA from Katwa.

Sources said Trinamul would soon hold a protest rally on the issue in Katwa.