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Ending weeks of speculation, the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) connected Tuesday announced that the Vaikuntha Dwara Darshan of Lord Venkateswara volition beryllium held for 10 days from December 30.
Briefing the media aft a marathon gathering of the Board of Trustees, TTD Chairman B.R. Naidu said that immoderate determination to trim the darshan play would wounded the spiritual sentiments of devotees and deprive lakhs of them of the accidental to person the Vaikuntha Dwara Darshan. Over 7.5 lakh devotees availed themselves of the installation during the erstwhile Vaikuntha Ekadasi.
The announcement assumes value amid reports that the TTD was considering curtailing the lawsuit to conscionable 2 days successful the aftermath of the stampede-like incidental during the past Vaikuntha Ekadasi successful January, which claimed six lives and near implicit 40 devotees injured.
YSRCP person and erstwhile TTD Chairman Bhumana Karunakar Reddy had connected Monday powerfully criticised the projected determination to shorten the darshan period, stating that the 10-day format had been approved during his party’s regularisation aft consultations with implicit 28 Peetadhipatis who gave their consent.
TTD Executive Officer Anil Kumar Singhal informed that a peculiar committee would beryllium constituted to finalise the modalities for summons distribution—whether done online mode oregon counters successful Tirupati. The committee volition taxable its recommendations wrong 2 weeks. Other cardinal resolutions included approving the operation of a Lord Venkateswara temple successful Chennai astatine a outgo of ₹14 crore, to beryllium funded done donations, and sanctioning Brahmotsavam bahumanams to employees. The Board besides cleared respective pilgrim-centric improvement works astatine Kanipakam, Ontimitta, Kadapa and Karimnagar temples, too recommending an Anti-Corruption Bureau enquiry into alleged irregularities successful the procurement of Melchat Vastrams.
