Andhra Pradesh: Oppn slams TDP govt over cow deaths in TTD sheds
A tense state of affairs prevailed within the temple city of Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday following challenges and counter-challenges between the YSR Congress get together and ruling Telugu Desam Get together-led coalition in Andhra Pradesh over the alleged dying of cows within the Sri Venkateshwara Goshala (cow-shed) being run by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD).
YSRCP leaders led by former Tirupati MLA and ex-chairman of TTD belief board Karunakar Reddy Bhumana have alleged for the final week that greater than 100 cows died as a result of neglect of the TTD administration within the final one month.
Bhumana posted a number of photos of cow carcasses within the TTD cowshed on social media, however TTD chairman B R Naidu strongly refuted the allegations. “It’s a utterly false allegation and is nothing however a conspiracy to wreck the popularity of TTD,” Naidu advised reporters after inspecting the Goshala on April 13. “There isn’t any negligence within the administration of cattle in TTD Goshala, the place cows are handled like moms and are supplied with feed and mandatory medical providers occasionally,” he mentioned.
On Thursday, the TDP, Jana Sena Get together and the BJP leaders challenged Bhumana to come back to Goshala to see the factual place and show his allegations.
Accepting the problem, Bhumana together with lots of of his followers started a rally to the Goshala, however the police prevented him, saying he can not lead such an enormous delegation to the Goshala, as it’d result in clashes. The police had been deployed round his dwelling in Padmavathi Puram because of escalating tensions. Different YSRCP leaders like Tirupati MP M Gurumurthy and ex-deputy chief minister Ok Narayana Swamy had been additionally stopped.
“If Bhumana needs, he can go there alongside along with his gunmen and private assistant,” Tirupati superintendent of police V Harshavardhan Raju mentioned.
However Bhumana insisted that he would go there alongside along with his get together staff. With the police denying permission, he staged a dramatic protest by mendacity down on the street, claiming police detained him at dwelling.
In the meantime, the TDP leaders had been additionally prevented from going there in giant numbers they usually stayed again. Later, TDP MLAs Bojjala Sudheer Reddy and Pulivarthi Nani, Jana Sena Get together MLA Arani Srinivasulu and BJP chief and TTD member Bhanuprakash Reddy went to the Goshala to examine the state of affairs.
Chatting with reporters later, Sudheer Reddy accused the YSRCP of deeply offending Hindu sentiments over the Tirupati Goshala controversy. “That is nothing however a determined try and deflect from the backlash over their baseless accusations on the Tirupati cowshed,” he mentioned.
Stating that cows are sacred to the Hindus like a mom, Sudheer Reddy challenged Tirupati chief Bhumana Karunakar Reddy to go to the cowshed in Tirupati and concern an unconditional apology.
In the meantime, Bhumana mentioned that the TDP-led coalition couldn’t settle for his problem because of concern and didn’t enable him and different YSRCP leaders to Goshala. He mentioned he stands by his model on the large-scale deaths of cows.
“Since morning, giant variety of police swarmed our home and didn’t enable us to go to the Goshala to show our model. We mentioned 5 members of our get together would go to the Goshala to current the factual place, however we weren’t allowed,” he mentioned.
