CM Jagan visits Tirupati amidst massive protests over faith declaration form

(Rishitha Jaladi, intern Journalist)Tirupati: Ahead of Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s two-day visit to Tirupati, a few TDP and BJP pioneers were put under house detainment on Wednesday. In the midst of high security, the TDP activists enrolled their fights in Tirupati with bulletins, requesting that Jagan Mohan Reddy should sign the confidence announcement structure at Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD). Fights were done in different pieces of the state as well. 

A couple of days back, TTD director YV Subba Reddy reported his choice to deny the standard that non-Hindus ought to obligatorily proclaim their confidence in ruler Venkateswara when they visited the temple. This choice snowballed into a significant contention. The structure was presented in 2012 after a comparable contention when Jagan, a sincere Christian, visited the spot. 

The underlying fights by the BJP were before long taken over by the primary resistance TDP, who requested that Jagan ought to pronounce his confidence in master Venkateswara when he enters the temple. CM Jagan is on a two-day visit to Tirupati. According to his timetable, Jagan should reach Tirupati at 1 pm on Wednesday; offer cotton garments to the god later in the day, and visit the temple again the following day. 

YS Jagan in Tirupati

The discussion with respect to the confidence announcement was additionally exasperated by Minister Kodali Nani, who said that there was no requirement for the Chief Minister to proclaim his confidence, and expressed that the standard ought to be renounced. He contended that any individual would visit a position of love in particular if s/he had confidence in that god, and scrutinized the requirement for such a standard. 

Scrutinizing the rationale behind the structure revelation, he had said that he went to better places of love (chapels, mosques) yet nobody requested that he pronounce his confidence at that point. He further inquired as to why such a standard exists just at Tirupati and not at Srisailam sanctuary or Kanaka Durga temple, or mosque or church. 

“Who made these principles? Also, whom did they solicit?” Nani, who is the Minister of Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, had stated, “If a non-Hindu visits the temple without proclaiming their confidence, will that contaminate the temple?” 

While discussing a progression of assaults on temples in the express, the Minister alluded to the icon of Anjaneya as ‘Bomma’ (toy). The BJP before long guaranteed that it was harmed by these remarks and documented a grievance with the police. 

On Wednesday, Bajrang Dal bunch individuals endeavored to gherao Jagan’s Hyderabad living arrangement at Lotus Pond and requested the suspension of Minister Kodali Nani.


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