Bharata Chaitanya Yuvajana (BCY) Party chief Bode Ramachandra Yadav had offered to donate clows to the Tirumala temple to start its own dairy for ghee procurement. In the light of the controversy over contaminated ghee and laddu, Ramachandra Yadav wrote a letter to Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu suggesting him and the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) to start its own dairy.
Ramachandra Yadav offered to donate one thousand cows and one lakh animals to the TTD. He said that the news about the contaminated ghee supplied to the TTD had pained several devotees of Lord Venkateswara. He said that he was also pained at the news about the contaminated ghee.
He said that he had started a padayatra from his house to the TTD. Several devotees and his followers have also joined the padayatra to protect the sanctity of the temple, he said. He said that at least one lakh devotees worship Lord Venkateswara every day. The temple also gets at least Rs 5 crore donations from the devotees every day.
The Tirumala temple is one of the largest temples in the country with highest income. He wondered why the temple is unable to start its own dairy for the ghee procurement. Offering to donate 1000 cows to the temple, he said that he would also motivate other devotees to donate one lakh cows. The TTD could procure 10 lakh liters of milk every day, he said. He said that the TTD could make at least 50,000 kilos of ghee every day with the 10 lakh liters of milk procured.
He said that the TTD could make use of the ghee from its own dairy and give the balance ghee to other temples in the state. He further said that he would be able to donate one lakh animals to the temple. They would require 10,000 care takers who could be taken from the Yadava community in the state, he said. This would provide employment opportunities to over 10,000 care takers besides those required to work in the dairy, he said.
He said that the Tirumala could not be made a center for politics or business. It should be the religious place where only devotees would deal with the temple officials. He argued against the involvement of politicians around the temple or its management.
Ramachandra Yadav sought to advice the chief minister to fill the TTD trust board with the devotees who are non-political. He wanted the TTD chairman and the members to be non-political and should be the priests and peethadipathis. He wanted the chief minister to take a non-political decision to protect the sanctity of the temple.
