Andhra Pradesh Information: In keeping with the ruling Telugu Desham Occasion authorities led by N Chandrababu Naidu’s stand on Temples and its workers, the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) Board has requested its non-Hindu workers to both take switch or voluntary retirement. The TTD Board manages Andhra Pradesh’s Sri Venkateswara temple additionally referred to as Tirupati temple. The board said that the choice aligns with its dedication to sustaining the non secular sanctity of its temples and non secular practices.
This follows the board’s choice, made in November, to switch non-Hindu workers and prohibit political speeches. The assembly was the primary carried out by the TTD since its present chairman, B.R. Naidu, took workplace that month.
In keeping with a number of media reviews together with The Indian Categorical, six of the 18 workers are lecturers at numerous TTD instructional institutes, others embody a deputy govt officer (Welfare), an assistant govt officer, an assistant technical officer (electrical), a employee within the hostel, two electricians, and two nurses.
The order issued by TTD reads, “….devoted servants of the Lord Venkteshwara and the esteemed TTD, all of the TTD workers are dedicated to keep up the sanctity of the temple by upholding the traditions and values which were adopted for hundreds of years and to uphold the beliefs and sentiments of the devotees”.
In September final yr, controversy arose over the Tirupati Prasadam (laddus) after Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu alleged that substandard components, together with animal fats, have been used of their preparation through the earlier YSRCP authorities. The laddus are a sacred providing on the Sri Venkateswara Temple in Tirupati.
The earlier YSRCP authorities was additionally accused of appointing non-Hindus to the TTD board.
