A hypocritical, ultra-conservative Odia woman has been faking a sense of humour for the last 36 hours to gain political mileage, our sources in Bhubaneswar report.

Right-leaning, traditions loving, would-rather-cut-Chenna-Poda-than-Cake on birthdays, Priyanka Rath had to force laugh at a joke aimed at Hindu temples.

The said joke, devoid of any wit, or humour for that matter, and steeped in sexual connotations was made by an out-of-state visitor at the Konark Temple. The video has since gone viral, enraging many Odia people including the upper echelons of the ruling Biju Janata Dal whose MPs and MLS have demanded the arrest of the tourist for “heresy”.

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Miss Rath, being a hypocrite and a very vocal supporter of BJP, had to capitalize on this and went against her own instincts by defending the joke.

“This is pure vindictive politics from Naveen Patnaik and BJD,” she said. “You can clearly see it’s a joke. Yes, it paints our temples in a bad light but it’s meant to be a joke for crying out loud.

“It basically reduced the Konark Temple to an orgy filled centre of disgusting sexual deviance but still. Yes, it pokes fun at the statues, vulgarizes it, so what? Shame on Naveen Babu! This tourist did more to promote Odisha Tourism than Odisha government.

“BJD members should really get a sense of humour,” finished Miss Rath who once had a nervous breakdown when Odisha Gazette’s twitter handle put the word ‘cum’ and ‘Jagannath’ in the same sentence.

Following in Miss Rath’s footsteps Odia Twitter seems to have gained a sense of humour overnight.

“Jokes on religion and temples are never funny but I thoroughly enjoyed this one,” said RSS karyakarta Debiprasad Tripathy, who tweeted ‘Naveen Babu Murdabaad’.

“I think satire should be encouraged,” believes Satwik Nayak, who once called for Odisha Bandh because he found Sona Mohapatra’s rendition of a devotional song ‘extremely offensive’.

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