Last year, too, several devotees had offered their prayers at the statue situated amidst the Sursagar.

Addressing reporters here on Thursday, Member of the Legislative Assembly and president of the Satyam Shivam Sundaram Samiti Yogesh Patel said, while the statue will be inaugurated next year, considering the number of people who paid obeisance to the deity last year, this year, too, the procedure will be continued. He said they were considering proposals to take out a rath on similar lines of that of Jaganath Puri.