YSRCP brushes aside TDP’s baseless allegations

New Delhi, Feb 5: Taking strong objection to the baseless allegations and false propaganda of the coalition government, YSRCP has said that appointing a committee into the Tirupati laddu issue is only a ploy to divert people’s attention from the CBI charge sheet which categorically stated that there is no animal fat in the ghee as claimed by Chandrababu Naidu.

Speaking to media here on Thursday, Party MPs YV Subba Reddy, Mithun Reddy, M Gurumoorthy, Golla Babu Rao and others said, the SIT has categorically stated that there is no animal fat in the ghee used for preparing the laddus and did not mention any names of YSRCP leaders, which is a matter that could not be digested by Chandrababu and he is now unleashing false propaganda and has set up a committee to mouth the TDP version.

Condemning Chandrababu for dragging Lord Venkateswara into political controversy, they brushed aside the allegations that the CFTI report was put under wraps by TTD and said it was YV Subba Reddy who wrote to the Central Food Technology Research Institute to carry out the probe but the officials did not bring it to their notice.

YV Subba Reddy said that it was he who moved the Supreme Court to order a CBI inquiry and it has filed a charge sheet after thoroughly investigating the case and stated that there was no animal fat in the ghee used to prepare the laddus. This is in total contrast to the false claims of Chandrababu Naidu whose remarks had hurt the sentiments of devotees. ‘I am prepared to face any test, and if the malicious campaign continues, I will explore legal options as well,’ he said.

Yet the coalition leaders have been levelling baseless allegations and have been carrying out a malicious campaign against us and have been erecting hoardings and posters across the state to blame YSRCP and we will not take it lying low and will explore other avenues.
The other allegation is that we have given ghee supply contracts to smaller companies and have relaxed norms to that effect. This was done to encourage start-up companies and prevent a handful of companies from forming a syndicate, they said, adding that it was done without compromising on the quality of the ghee.

The allegations and attacks on our leaders and their properties seem to be a conspiracy to divert public attention from SIT observations which were categorical that no animal fat was used in the ghee as claimed by Chandrababu, hurting Hindu sentiments and using Lord Balaji for political gains, they said.