NewsToday Article raises a lot of questions in my mind.

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Greetings, Please read the news article below. Lot of

questions are coming to my mind.

 

Are the IAS officers playing to the political tune or

are they going to tell us the reality? The way in

which these meetings are held are not bi-partisan.

Well if we say something the government will form

another committee of IAS officers to review the report

submitted by a different set of IAS officers.

 

Why don't the IAS officers talk to the Religious

Experts who attended the Samgosthi held in Hyderabad

attended by 300 or so best scholars in the world and

the most authoritative on this subject? Why are they

doing mock interviews and mocking the people like us?

Why are they being selectively secretive in their

meetings? Why is their meeting schedule not published

to the outside world? Why and how are they deciding on

whom to meet and when to meet?

 

Looks like a major scam to me!

 

How about a CB-CID enquiry into how corrupt these IAS

officers are in India? Well what is the guarantee

CB-CID folks are not corrupt?

 

Why has India become like this? Who is to blame?

 

 

 

HERE IS THE NEWS ARTICLE:

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Tirumala issue has its echo in Chennai

K GEETHA

Chennai, Jan 6:

 

A high-level committee constituted by the

Andhra Pradesh government to go into some of the

decisions taken by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams

(TTD) vis-a-vis the Lord Venkateswara temple which had

stirred a controversy, today met members of the public

at the TTD centre here and elicited their views.

 

The key issues which were addressed by the

three-member Master Plan Committee were the demolition

of thousand-pillar mandapam to make way for the

construction of a mahapraharam and the need for a

master plan for the temple town.

 

Speaking to News Today, P V R K Prasad, a

former TTD official and chairman, Master Plan

Committee, said 'the committee, which was set up two

months ago to look into the issues, would send a

detailed report to the government by the month-end'.

 

The committee had toured Vishakapatnam,

Bangalore, Tirupati, before reaching the city to get

the views of the public on whether they see any need

for change in the present system. 'We even held

discussions with Tridandi Jeeyar who opposed the

demolition of the mandapam . He insisted that it be

reconstructed as it was a hereditary structure which

formed part of the Vaikhanasa Agama shastra on which

the temple construction is based'.

 

The members had also had interaction with

vedic exponents and archaeologists to gather their

opinion.

 

Lakshmi Narasimhan, district secretary, Bharat

Scouts and Guides, Chennai, who was one of the

devotees to air his views, said, 'the demolition was

good in a way as the place was being misused by the

public',

 

But his comments drew a sharp retort from

another who said if at all the site was being misused,

it was 'misuse' that must have been checked. The

mandapam should not have been demolished.

 

Karthikeyan, another devotee, however,

supported the demolition, saying it had paved way for

creating more space to the public to have darshan of

the Lord from close quarters during utsavams .

 

'Our views should have been sought before

bringing the centuries-old structure down. Not after

doing it', retorted a visibly-annoyed Vedavalli.

 

About the construction of mahapraharam, one of

them said, 'just because they need space to prepare

laddus and perform kalyana utsavams, which meant more

revenue, they should not construct a mahapraharam. If

need be, they should embark on the exercise only after

consultations with vedic experts'.

 

The other committee members were A Chengappa

and Y Chakradhar Rao, former TTD officials.