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TTD-Sangh Parivar row hots up on `evangelical activities'

Special Correspondent

Management, staff unions to protest against `misinformation campaign'

TIRUPATI: The raging controversy over the alleged evangelical activities on and off the Tirumala hills has resulted in a standoff between the Sangh Parivar units and the TTD.

A day after the hill temple's senior archaka led a delegation to Hyderabad to call on Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy and to repudiate the charges, it was on Friday the turn of the TTD's employees United Association of Organisations (UAO) to rubbish the report of the fact finding committee headed by former judge of High Court Bikshapathy and throw its lot behind the TTD management.

On the other hand, the State and district leaders of the Sangh Parivar have at a separate press conference here today took cudgels against the TTD management for what they called the TTD's sense of intolerance towards positive criticism.

The BJY and the BJYM leaders have taken exception to the TTD management also being so intolerant and trying to brush aside even the serious issues raised by the Bikshapathy committee in its report.

In retaliation, the UAO, an umbrella organisation of different TTD staff unions, has termed all the goings-on as `disinformation campaign' launched by the Sangh Parivar organisations to derive the political mileage.

In a related development, Vice-Chancellor of Sri Padmavathi Mahila Viswa Vidyalayam, Veena Noble Das, who is in the eye of a storm in the wake of serious allegations that she was encouraging evangelism on the campus has in a statement squarely denied the charges.

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