Naidu, Pawan must apologise to devotees for falsehoods on Tirumala Laddu

Rajahmundry, Jan 30: Former MP Margani Bharat strongly condemned Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan and Minister Nara Lokesh for dragging Lord Venkateswara Swamy and the sacred Tirumala laddu into politics by falsely alleging that animal fat was used in prasadam. Addressing the media at the YSR Congress Party office in Rajahmundry, he said the CBI SIT chargesheet submitted before the Nellore court has conclusively established that no animal fat of any kind was present in the ghee used for laddu preparation. Despite this, coalition leaders have continued malicious propaganda, staging temple rituals and rallies to divert attention after their falsehoods were exposed.

Margani Bharat questioned the basis on which such grave allegations were made even before an FIR was registered and pointed out the contradictions between statements made by the TTD Executive Officer and Chandrababu Naidu himself. He said NDDB and CBI reports have clearly proven the allegations to be lies and demanded that Chandrababu Naidu, Pawan Kalyan and Nara Lokesh publicly admit their mistake and apologise to Lord Venkateswara Swamy and the people of Andhra Pradesh. He further alleged that the controversy was deliberately created to divert attention from governance failures, including flood mismanagement, and warned that politicising faith and hurting the sentiments of crores of devotees would not go unpunished.