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The YSRCP has raised eyebrows implicit the declaration bagged precocious for proviso of ghee to Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) by Indapur Dairy and Milk Products Limited, a Maharashtra-based manufacturing portion of Heritage Foods, tally by the household of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu.
Addressing the media present connected Thursday, YSRCP Chittoor territory president Bhumana Karunakar Reddy, who antecedently served arsenic the TTD Trust Board chairman, pointed to the “scores of inaccuracies” successful the charges heaped by Mr. Naidu against the erstwhile YSRCP dispensation implicit the ghee procurement issue.
Mr. Karunakar Reddy made circumstantial notation of Mr. Naidu’s repeated statements successful the past that axenic ghee could ne'er beryllium supplied astatine the complaint of ₹300, indirectly attributing the alleged proviso of adulterated ghee to the TTD to the YSRCP regime’s insistence connected “very debased price.”
He recalled successful this transportation that the Indapur Dairy had supplied 16.50 lakh kg of ghee astatine the complaint of ₹306/kg successful 2015, little than a twelvemonth aft Mr. Naidu had taken implicit the reins of the bifurcated State.
“The TTD’s past Specified Authority Chairman J.S.V. Prasad approved the declaration connected January 15, 2015,” helium recalled.
Mr. Reddy besides wondered if utilizing the sanction of its manufacturing portion ‘Indapur Dairy’ to use for the declaration was an overt effort to camouflage the sanction of the more-popular ‘Heritage Foods’, to debar being viewed by the nationalist arsenic unduly influencing the tender process.
“After Mr. Naidu repeatedly stated that axenic ghee tin ne'er beryllium supplied for astir Rs.300 a kg, the manufacturing portion of his family’s Heritage Foods has bagged the declaration for ₹658 successful December 2025. We present fishy if it is simply a deliberate ploy to tune the people’s minds to judge a higher-than-normal price,” helium observed.
