New Chairman of TTD directs VIP’s to restrict their visit to Tirumala temple
Kochi : The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, (TTD) which manages the country’s richest temple of Lord Venkateshwara on the Tirumala hills of Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district, is contemplating scrapping of VIP break darshans of the deity.
Y V Subba Reddy, the newly appointed chairman of TTD trust board told reporters in Tirumala on Saturday that the present system of providing VIP darshan breaks under three layers – L-1, L-2 and L-3 – would be done away with soon to avoid inconvenience to the ordinary devotees.
“A decision to this effect will be taken at the meeting of the new TTD trust board to be constituted shortly,” Reddy said.
At present, only Reddy has taken over as the chairman of the TTD trust board, after the earlier board member quit their posts following the formation of the YSR Congress party government in the state. Chief minister Y S Jaganmohan Reddy is expected to constitute the new board in a week or 10 days.
He has also requested the VIPs not to come to Tirumala frequently for VIP darshan and restrict their visit to the temple only once a year in order to avoid causing inconvenience to ordinary devotees. He said VIPs would get special darshan but only once a year hereafter.
The preferential treatment given to the VVIPs and VIPs has been incurring the wrath of the other devotees as the break darshan often runs into more than two or three hours.
