Cunning Chistist design at Tirumala

 

Will the E.O. conduct an open and honest inquiry into the antecedents of this man and call his sub-ordinates discreetly for an inquiry.

 

2. It is also stated that one Vijayakumar, Superintendent of the MBC 26 (Mangala Bhavi Cottages) is also a crypto-christist. Powers to Allot cottages in the Sri Venkateswara Guest House Area is vested with him.

 

Does the EO know that he is a crypto-christist?

 

 

Can the EO deny that he is not a christist?

 

4. Is the EO aware that maximum conversions at Tirumala has taken place in the Sanitary workers families? Most of them are christists and NOT HINDUS. Some of them are even employed in the holy precincts of the Mandir.

 

 

Is this our culture? our Samskriti, Mr EO?

 

 

During the Press meet, the EO also took pains to quote from the Varaha Purana that there is no mention of Seven Hills so the issue of Seven Hills being reduced to Two Hills is just a “supposition”. Even if this were to be only a “supposition” of the Hindus, the EO should understand clearly that this “Supposition” is a matter of Hindu faith and is non-negotiable.The irony is even the monthly magazine brought out by the TTD is called – “Saptagiri”.

 

 

Let us remind the E.O. on the following facts:

 

1.  Mackenzie’s manuscript of the year 1801 states explicitly that the Seven Hills extended up to the Swarnamukhi river near Sri Kalahasti in the East, Nagapatala Devarakonda in the West, Yerraguntla Thota in Rayachoti Taluk in the North and Pillari Kanuma near Narayanavanam in the South.

 

2. Let us look at the Judgement of a division bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court in 1997 – Tallapakkam Kuppa Raghavan (a descendent of Saint Tallapaka Annamacharya) vs The State of Andhra Pradesh.The Division Bench contended that the ownership of all the Seven Hills vested with Lord Venkateshwara, right from the foothills on all sides. In that judgement, the bench observed:

 

“Although there is no documentation available as the origin is lost in antiquity, no one has questioned the ownership (of Seven Hills) by Lord Venkateswara. This being true and a real concept, the Board of Trustees, the Committee or the Executive Officer are only administrators of the property of Lord Venkateswara. They can have no right of ownership in themselves and they cannot thus decide anything against the interest of the right of the owner (Lord Venkateswara). Once the ownership is resolved and the right to administer is deemed to vest as provided under Article 26 of the Constitution of India in the plurality of the devotees and regulated by the provisions of the Act and Rules framed thereunder, no administrator, whether appointed under the Act or otherwise can take liberty to destroy the sanctity and holiness of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, and domain as we have already held, extends to all the Seven Hills called Tirumala. It is not in dispute that pilgrims in thousands and millions sometimes visit the temple and there is no day which is not full of activities of the pilgrims and various rituals, pujas and rites of the cult preserved since antiquity and no part of the Seven Hills, except some secular activities which are essential for the service of Lord Venkateswara is free from religious activities, in and around the temple right from the foothills on all sides”.

 

 

Source: Report of the Andhra Pradesh Endowments Commission, Volume 1 dated 28th February, 1986, pages 193/194

 

 

9.24 One of the serious problems now faced by the TTD is how to control the enormous growth of population at Tirumala Hills. The growth of population at Tirumala Hills has created a number of problems to tht T.T.D. management.

 

An extent of 4.5 square miles around the temple of Lord Venkateswara in Tirumala was ordered in G.O. Ms No. 1713, dated 18-11-1876 by the Government of Madras to be handed over to the Mahant (of Hathiram ji Mutt), who was the then “Vicharana Kartha” of the Temple. Luckily the Deputy Conservator, Mr Shaffield committed a mistake in using a 100 feet chain instead of 66 feet chain in demarcating the aforesaid 4.5 Sq miles which resulted in securing 10.33 Sq Miles (or 27.5 Sq Kms) area to this sacred shrine.

 

Finally the Government of Andhra Pradesh in G.O. Ms No. 1784, Revenue (Q) Department dated 4-11-1965 ordered grant of patta to the temple for 10.33 Sq miles around the temple.

 

 

The forest on either side of the foot path belongs to the Forest Department. And here is where I foresee a masterstroke of this christist government of AP aided and abetted by the christist super PM.

 

 

Recently, the Forest Department of the Government of A.P. advertised in the Press calling for sealed tenders with bids from private parties under the scheme called “Eco-Restoration Project”. The idea is to lease out forests to private parties under the afforestation/eco-restoration scheme. The lease period is 33 years which in effect means that the lessee becomes a “permanent” lessee under existing laws. This confers on him a ownership right on 1/3 rd of the area under lease even after the expiry of the lease period. An extent of 56,000 odd acres of such forest lands in select districts of AP are going to be leased out to private parties under this scheme.

 

I am more than convinced that slowly, this scheme will be extended to forest lands of the Sacred Tirumala Hills in a future call, if a part of this forest land is not already included in the 56,000 odd acres proposed to be privatised.

 

This is a back door entry offered to other than Hindus to lease lands on the Sacred Hills so they can even have their own “places of worship” for their “workers”.

 

Therefore, the Hindu Samaj has to demand the Government of AP and the Central Government to notify the entire forest area as belonging to Bhagawan Balaji with the TTD as the current administrators. And this is non-negotiable.