Summary:
Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, he explained that the temple kitchen was constructed in about 1150 AD in the first periphery (praakaaram) around the main temple and it was in perfect condition. Offering ‘unholy prasadam’ prepared outside the potu to the deity was a greater sin” he said. He said “a similar diamond was auctioned at Geneva recently for a huge bidding and there are allegations that it as the one from the temple”. He demanded a probe into the ‘unholy’ goings-on in the temple. more-inFormer chief priest of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) Ramana Deekshithulu has fired a fresh salvo at the Andhra Pradesh Government and the TTD Board particularly asking “why the temple kitchen (potu) was closed for 25 days against Aagama Shashtra provisions when the intention was only to remove four boulders, as being claimed, from the ancient construction”..