Y.S.Reddy was an ardent Shirdi Sai Baba Devotee

September 3, 2009

Y.S.Reddy was an ardent Shirdi Sai Baba Devotee.Ahmednagar, Sep 3 : Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy, who died in a helicopter crash, was an ardent devotee of Shirdi Sai Baba.''When the Shirdi Sai Baba trust people met him 15 days ago in Hyderabad, he had expressed his wish to visit the Sai Baba temple between September 11 and 15 along with his family, his secretary Bhanu and Andhra Congress president P Shrinivasan. But this wish remained unfulfilled due to Reddy's sudden

demise'', a trustee of the temple trust told UNI.However, another wish of Reddy, which is broadcasting of the Kakad, Madhyan, Dhoop and Shej ''Aartis'' conducted in Shirdi everyday, will be fulfilled soon as the Sai Baba trust has sanctioned an application by TV9 news channel to broadcast the same, on the insistence of the late chief minister.Reddy had also alloted a land to the Sai Baba trust in Tirumala to built a ''Bhakt Niwas'' there for the devotees visiting Tirupati from Maharashtra.When Reddy was an MP from Kuddupah, he had expressed a desire to construct a Sai Telugu Bhavan in Shirdi, citing that 80 per cent of the population of Andhra Pradesh are Sai Bhaktas, the trustee recalled.The Sai Baba trust has expressed profound grief over his

sudden demise.--UNISource - http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-104969.html"May Baba rest his Soul in Peace"Sairam,rOhit beHaL

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