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Chief Minister of the eastern state of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee (C) joins devotees as they pull the holy rope of the Chariot of Lord Jagannath during the Rath Yatra celebration in Kolkata on June 21, 2012. This year marks the 135th annual Rath Yatra, where wooden images or idols of Lord Jagannath, his brother Balabhadra and sister Subhadra are mounted on ceremonial chariots and taken out in a procession and hundreds of thousands of devotees participate.

Chief Minister of the eastern state of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee (C) joins devotees as they pull the holy rope of the Chariot of Lord Jagannath during the Rath Yatra celebration in Kolkata on June 21, 2012. This year marks the 135th annual Rath Yatra, where wooden images or idols of Lord Jagannath, his brother Balabhadra and sister Subhadra are mounted on ceremonial chariots and taken out in a procession and hundreds of thousands of devotees participate.