VIJAYAWADA/TIRUPATI : Amid the controversy over the allegations on missing jewellery of Lord Venkateswara and on a day when the TTD Trust Board members carried out a physical verification of jewels at the Tirumala temple, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu made a major announcement that the government will conduct a judicial inquiry to verify the Lord’s ornaments and also to look into the affairs of TTD once in two years.
Naidu made these announcements while addressing the Village Revenue Assistants in Vijayawada on Monday. He said that a judicial committee had already looked into the jewellery of the Lord and established that the jewels are intact.
Naidu, however, said that the Opposition parties are not sparing Lord Venkateswara for playing politics by talking about diamond and jewels that were not in the records of the TTD.“The government will appoint a judicial committee once in two years to verify the jewels of the Lord as the Agama Advisory members suggested that it is not fair to display the Lord’s jewels before public,’’ he said adding that the committee will go through the ornaments as well as all other happenings in the TTD and submit a report whether everything going right or not. "This will bring all the facts before the public," he added.
Meanwhile, in Tirumala, the TTD Trust Board members made physical verification of the Lord’s jewels and expressed satisfaction over the safety of the precious jewels and also the intact condition of ornaments of Lord. After verifying randomly the ornaments in coffers inside the shrine, Trust Board member Sudha Narayana Murthy told media that according to the Tiruvabharana Register, the jewels are in the lockers safely and the system of the chest is also qualitative.
“We checked them randomly and found everything intact. TTD former chief priest AV Ramana Deekshitulu, who made an allegation of some jewellery missing from the chest, has to prove them with evidences,” said Peddi Reddy Ramachandraiah, another Trust Board member. He strongly objected to the proposal to display the sacred jewellery in exhibitions.
Another member Sandra Venkata Veeraiah expressed his anger against the former chief priest. He alleged that Ramana Deekshitulu has become a puppet in hands of politicians and is making allegations against the sanctity of the temple, he said.