Health Ministry Asks For Detailed Report On Tirupati Laddoos Row

Union Minister and BJP National General Secretary Sanjay Bandi has called it an “unforgivable sin”. He also claimed a communal angle, alleging adulteration of the ghee was because “few people from other religions (had been) inducted” into the board.

Bhanu Prakash Reddy, a BJP MP who was on the board of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam – the government trust that manages the Tirumala Venkateswara Temple and others in the state, has demanded that a police complaint be filed against the former Chief Minister.

The YSR Congress, meanwhile, has hit back hard against the flood of allegations.

Rajya Sabha MP YV Subba Reddy, who was Chairperson of the TTD for four years, said it is “unimaginable to even say ‘animal fat was used in consecrated food offered daily to the deity and in laddoos given to devotees'”. Reddy blasted the Chief Minister for the “heinous’ claim.

Reddy also declared that it was Chandrababu Naidu, in fact, who had damaged the sanctity of the temple, and affected crores of devotees, by making such outrageous comments, according to an NDTV report.