The devotee Man Chand Saini complained of uneasiness after having darshan and was bought out and attended by a team of medics but keeping in view deterioration in his health, he was shifted to a 100-bedded hospital in Vrindavan by ambulance. However, doctors in the hospital declared him dead
Sambit Patra, the BJP candidate from Puri, clarified that his comment was a slip of the tongue and asked Odisha chief minister not to make an issue out of it.