The great plunder of Tirupati

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The great plunder of Tirupati

Tuesday, May 24, 2005

 

The great plunder of Tirupati

 

Bankrupt AP Endowment Department and the CM, Y Samuel Rajasekara Reddy

 

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The AP Government has already started plundering the Tirupati Balaji’s wealth.

 

Why should the Hindu Samaj remain indifferent and inactive to such naked

aggression and rape of our revered institutions by YSR? The kings of yesteryears

were the Trustees of our Mandirs in their time. They were only keen to add to

the Mandir assets with each passing year. The current day kings, and the

born-again kings like YSR, seem to deem it their duty as they systematically

strip us to the last fibre and parade us as pagans.

 

Take a look hard look at few of these facts:

 

10,000 Mandirs in AP alone are in the worst possible state. There is no money

for lighting a single lamp each day. Nor is Naivedyam presented to the Presiding

Deity each day. In many Mandirs there is no money to pay for the salaries of the

staff and the Archakas.

 

The church is the largest real-estate owner in the country, next only to the

Government and no single Government dares to bring this under its control.

 

Only lands associated with Hindu temples are being given away in the name of

social justice. After all when it comes to Hindus, the Government which is just

a “trustee” will suddenly assume “ownership” of these lands while bartering it

for vote-bank politics and for appeasement of minorities.

 

Let us assume that I form a Trust and do what the AP Government is doing today

as a Trustee. I would be instantly prosecuted and hauled in for fraudulent

activity, betrayal of trust and would be ordered to dismantle it, under the law

of the land.

 

It is evident that the A P Government seems to conclude that it is above the

Trust laws. It can do what it pleases when it comes to destroying Hindu

institutions. And the trust that the Hindu Bhaktas impose on it to take care of

its Mandirs be damned.

 

 

Please circulate this to as many and urge them to respond to these two ignoble

men (Sri Y Samuel Rajasekhara Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, and Sri M

Satyanarayana Rao, Minister for Endowments, Government of Andhra Pradesh) so

they get to know that we are outraged with their betrayal of our trust as

Trustees of our Mandir affairs.

 

 

Money down the drain

Take for instance, the recent decision of the Government and the Government

sponsored TTD Board to spend the Bhakta’s “religious money” for “secular”

purpose of constructing the underground drainage.

 

Tell me if it is the duty of the Government to provide the drainage or the duty

of the Mandir? So your money finds its way down the drain.

 

Or its diversion to the Veterinary College development, not connected to the

religious institution? Whose responsibility is this, the Government’s or the

Mandir’s?

 

Will Lallu give Railway lands for mandir constructions?

 

The AP Government through the TUDA (Tirupati Urban Development Authority)

demanded from the TTD a sum of Rs 6 crores towards property and other taxes so

it could have the money required to construct a Idgah Maidan on the Railway

lands abetting the Bhagawan’s lands. Obviously, because it is Idgah Maidan,

secular Lallu did not object. And the secularists rushed to facilitate its

completion. What if a Hindu wanted to construct a Mandir on the Railway lands?

Will the same secularists come forward with such glee? Remember, Lallu ordered

removal of Mandirs on Railway lands?

 

YSR unhappy with his Endowment Minister I am told that the money was stopped in

the last minute after strong protests and the intervention of the Endowment

Minister, M. Satyanarayana, who as I understand, is fighting a losing battle

against YSR. Well placed sources indicate that this minister is likely to lose

his berth unless he “converts” himself from being a good Hindu to being a

“adorable-secularist” as the YSR wants him to be. Meaning, YSR does not want the

Minister to raise objections to the usage of Mandir funds for Monotheistic

religious purposes.

 

Knowledgeable circles in AP confided with me that the YSR takes joy in making

the officials of the Endowment Department to over-rule the Minister and to

ridicule him at every opportunity. People who were present during the “Ugadi

Puraskarams” functions this year are witness to how the Endowment Minister was

humiliated and made most uncomfortable by YSR.

 

In Bhadrachalam, where 12 acres of lands belonging to the Sri Rama Mandiram was

given away to an organisation (apparently for the construction of a school

there), who ended up constructing a facility for converting the local tribals.

The Minister was apparently unhappy with this and was denied the protocol

honours during his recent visit for Sri Rama Navami celebrations.

 

YSR found Rs 6 crores for the construction of the Maidan in the Holy Town of

Tirupati . But can find no money when 10,000 Mandirs languish for funds in the

very backward areas of his State. He will not give them Mandirs. He wants them

to remain a fertile ground for the breed of hungry plunderers to arrive and

harvest.

 

 

Are Hindus incompetent to run their institutional affairs?

Mandir money for “secular sexual” use

 

A P Government had recently decided to construct guest houses and rest rooms on

various highways using the TTD money. Bhagawan’s money will be put to some

“secular sexual use” to create rendezvous for the benefit of some unscrouplous

ministers and bureaucrats to sleep with the concubines.

 

Where is Hindu religious cause here? Why should one permit the TTD to become the

Government appointed nodal agency to appease minorities or to undertake projects

other than the Hindu Dharmic ones?

 

Government has taken over the Hindu Mandirs as a Trustee. It has no right of

ownership. And you will come to the conclusion that this A P Government is worse

than the Britishers when it comes to inflicting damage on our Hindu institutions

and the Hindus as a whole.

 

There are 370,000 acres of Mandir lands in AP. Of this, the Endowment Department

does not even have records of lands to the extent of 100,000 acres. Does this

surprise you? The Hindu Religious Endowment Department is infiltrated by

naastika administrators in the guise of Hindus.

 

So we have a trustee who does not even have proper accounting system. What

should you do to him? What would you do if your accountant failed you? Trash

him? Throw him out? And what are we doing to these trustees who have betrayed

our trust.

 

A Ministry that does not have annual budgetary allocation

 

You might be surprised to learn that the AP Hindu Religious Endowment Department

is the only department in AP which does not get a single Rupee as the Annual

Budgetary allocation from the A P Government. So this Deparment has no

Governmental source of funding. Then how does this department manage to run its

blasting path of systematic destruction of our Mandirs? How does it manage the

vast empire of unwanted elements in the garb of employees?

 

Simple. In addition to having all the Mandir resources at its control, it

collects 15% of total revenues from Larger Mandirs like the Tirupati Mandir and

12% from smaller Mandirs. In addition, it collects 3% uniformly from all the

Mandirs towards what it has called as “common-good-fund”. Anything that starts

with the word Common is just plain bs. You saw that in the Common Minimum

Programme, too. Didn’t you? Now, the Government, in addition to dipping its

hands into the Hundi collections can just can dip into this common- good -fund

also for any activity of its choice – depending on if the CM (like the Ghazni

did of the Dwaraka’s Murti of Bhagawan Krishna.)

 

Check the AP government Website and show me the Endowment Department there:

 

It might surprise you that the Endownment Department is not featured in the

Official website of the Government of AP while even the minority welfare has a

link presented in the website. So our Trustee is very secretive. Wants to hide

from the public glare. And least credible because he shuns the public domain.

What is it afraid of?

 

 

Take a look at the number of known Nastikas who ruled the State since its

formation. Add to these three Naastikas, sympathisers of the variety of Chandra

Babu Naidu, whose regime saw the State-sponsored and facilitated upshoot of

naastikas.

 

There are also strong rumours doing rounds that Chandra Babu’s wife,

Bhuvaneshwari (daughter of the Late NTR) is a Naastika. Readers should also know

that it is believed in certain circles that Chandrababu Naidu has interests in

an abattoir with Saudi links that slaughters countless cows for export of beef.

If this is true I am not amazed why he was the first to take the flight to meet

Vajpayee and “strongly” demand the dropping of the very idea of a Prevention of

Cow slaughter Bill, when BJP was Hindu enough in its early days of governance.

 

Sanction for the repairs – Hindus get into debt trap

 

Days before Chandra Babu Naidu of TDP lost his elections, he sanctioned Rs. 75

crores towards repairs and restoration of some Mandirs in AP. The Endowment

Department had no funds. The Government undertook the work. And in many cases,

the presiding deities were dragged out into the open under the pretext of

renovation and left to fend for themselves, the vagaries of Nature. In some

Mandirs local bhaktas formed groups to facilitate renovations. Such bills ran up

to Rs 48 crores. And the Government made just a token re-imbursement, thus

putiing various Hindu Bhaktas into a debt trap. The Government still owes this

money.

 

Now, where does it decide to look for the money?

 

The Government has already started plundering the Tirupati Balaji’s wealth. Now,

it wants to be seen as being fair to Him. It does not want people to perceive it

as being selective in its destruction. So tells the world that Tirupati Balaji

was not willing to give money for these projects so they have to scout for

another Mandir, to satiate their rapacious appetite for systematic destruction

of Hindu institutions. I would like to call this as: The Secular chain reaction

to the deliberate distribution of destruction.

 

Simhachalam Narasimha Swamy – A P Government’s new target of plunder:

 

The Government has now set its eyes on Simhachalam. On Simhadri Narasimha Swami.

And His thousands of acres of lands. These lands are in the Vizag district of

Andhra Pradesh. About 1500 to 2000 acres of these lands are under illegal

occupation. In most cases, it is simply not traceable as to who sold these lands

and to whom, the registration has long since been done, with the connivance of

various ministers and officials. Thousands of houses and bungalows have come up

on these illegally occupied lands. The current occupants claim that they have

been in the “enjoyment” of these lands for the past 10 to 15 years and if the

Government comes forward to “regularize” the land transaction and decide on the

price, they are willing to pay. Now, even squatters make the rules.

 

Can you give a honest figure, YSR?

 

Will the Government dare reveal how many Naastikas who constitute these large

number of illegal occupants?

 

A new Committee is born in the barn. Some have seen stars and dollar signs

 

A few years ago a committee was formed for the express purpose of “regularizing”

these illegal occupations of the lands belonging to Simhadri Narasimha Swami

Mandir. The committee lied low, perhaps taking time to make its own deals by

virtue of being given the oppurtunity to officially deal with the squatters.

Now, the YSR Government has formed a new Committee comprising of a few MLAs and

officials to look into this matter of “regularizing” the land in favour of the

illegal occupants. This committee is expected to submit its report shortly,

highlighting its observations and recommendations. The price per Square Yard is

under consideration. The lands where there are no constructions will be sold “as

is where is”. They expect a inflow of Rs. 125 crores. Of this, Rs. 48 crores

will be disbursed towards works already committed and in progress. The rest will

be used for the requirements and running of the A P Endowment Department. This

is as far as the 2000 acres of the Simhadri Mandir lands, now concluded as in

illegal occupation by squatters, of whichever faith and denomination they belong

to.

 

Government decides to sell Over 100,000 acres of Mandir lands in AP

 

In addition to the lands belonging to the Mandir of Simhachalam Sri Narasimha

Swamy, the Endowment Department has decided to sell 100,000 acres of lands

belonging to various Mandirs in AP and which are either under dispute or have

been illegally occupied by all and sundry. The Government has decided that a

committee comprising of all the MLAs will be constituted for this purpose. This

committee is enpowered to decide the price. There are 370,000 acres of Mandir

lands under the control of the Endowment Department. Of this, the department has

no records for Mandir lands to the extent of 100,000 acres. Of the rest of

270,000 acres, thousands of acres are under illegal occupation.

 

Who gives this NAASTIKA Government the right to sell the Mandir lands?

 

Why should the Hindu Samaj remain indifferent and inactive to such naked

aggression and rape of our revered institutions by a NAASTIKA? The kings of

yesteryears were the Trustees of our Mandirs in their time. They were only keen

to add to the Mandir assets with each passing year.

 

 

Take a look hard look at few of these facts:

 

10,000 Mandirs in AP alone are in the worst possible state. There is no money

for lighting a single lamp each day. Nor is Nivedyam presented to the Presiding

Deity each day. In many Mandirs there is no money to pay for the salaries of the

staff and the Archakas.

WILL THEY DO THIS TO THE NAASITKA OWNED LANDS?

 

Let us assume that I form a Trust and do what the AP Government is doing today

as a Trustee. I would be instantly prosecuted and hauled in for fraudulent

activity, betrayal of trust and would be ordered to dismantle it, under the law

of the land.

 

It is evident that The A P Government seems to conclude that it is above the

Trust laws. It can do what it pleases when it comes to destroying Hindu

institutions. And the trust that the Hindu Bhaktas impose on it to take care of

its Mandirs be damned.

 

 

Drop plan to acquire temples, VHP warns Govt

http://www.hindunet.com/onps/showarticle.php?ph=&ag=&a=18394

 

 

 

That is what govt. control does. Demolish Hindu infrastructure and encourage

NAASTIKAS. Basically, mass a movement is needed -- talking law and commonsense

does not help in a lawless state.

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