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Members of the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) staged a protestation successful the Legislative Council connected Tuesday, demanding an adjournment question to sermon the alleged proviso of adulterated ghee to the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) for mentation of laddu prasadam.
MLCs K.R.J. Bharat and Sipayi Subramanyam invoked Rule 58 of the Council’s Rules of Procedure, seeking suspension of scheduled concern to instrumentality up the issue.
However, Council Chairman Koyye Moshenu Raju informed the House that the adjournment question was not admitted.
Raising the issue, Leader of Opposition successful the Council Botcha Satyanarayana alleged that 1 of the companies progressive successful the proviso of ghee to the TTD earlier 2019 had concern relations with Heritage Foods Limited, owned by the household members of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu.
He claimed that betwixt 2014 and 2019, a Maharashtra-based firm, Indapur Dairy and Milk Products Limited, had supplied ghee to the TTD and had links with Heritage Foods. He further alleged that contempt being disqualified for six months implicit prime issues, the steadfast had been allowed to proceed supplies during Mr. Naidu’s earlier tenure arsenic Chief Minister.
YSRCP members accused Mr. Naidu of dragging the TTD into the contention for governmental and fiscal gain, and said they would let mean concern lone if a treatment was permitted.
Refuting the allegations, Agriculture Minister Kinjarapu Atchannaidu, Housing Minister Kolusu Parthasarathy and Revenue Minister Anagani Satya Prasad asserted that Heritage Foods had nary nonstop oregon indirect relation successful the ghee proviso issue.
Mr. Atchannaidu challenged the Opposition to supply a azygous portion of evidence, and alleged that the YSRCP lacked motivation crushed to statement the TTD matters. He further said that the ongoing SIT probe had already established adulteration successful ghee supplied betwixt 2019 and 2024 nether the YSRCP regime, and that erstwhile TTD president Y.V. Subba Reddy had acknowledged the findings.
Mr. Atchannaidu besides alleged that YSRCP president and erstwhile Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy disrespected Hindu religion by not giving a declaration portion visiting the Tirumala temple.
Mr. Parthasarathy accused the YSRCP of deliberately disrupting the proceedings for governmental mileage by linking Heritage Foods to the controversy.
As protests continued passim the day, the Chairman adjourned the House, with lone constricted legislative concern transacted.
