Andhracafe.com- HYDERABAD : With barely a day to go for the Sangh Parivar’s Chalo Tirupati programme called to save what it called the ‘sanctity’ of Tirumala from the pseudo-secular and anti-Hindu forces, the Sangh Parivar on Tuesday performed Bhoomi Puja at the venue TUDA grounds, where senior party leaders like M. Venkaiah Naidu, B. Dattatreya and others would address the rallyists on November 1.

           Talking to mediapersons in Tirupati after performing the Bhoomi Puja, the senior secretary of the State BJP N.V.S.S. Prabhakar strongly condemned the State government for allegedly siphoning away temple funds for its own secular activities and dared to lay its hands on the funds of Wakf Board and Christian Missionaries.
           Charging that the religious bias and government interference into the affairs of the TTD has increased after the advent of the Congress government in the State, he cited in this connection the TTD management allegedly frittering away Rs. 100 crore to float the Balaji Spiritual Channel and questioned the propriety of the TTD rather lavishly paying as much as Rs. 10 lakh for each episode in the teleserial it proposed to produce. 
           This is perhaps the highest to be paid by any television channel for a single episode, Prabhakar said and termed it as a gross ‘misuse’ of the TTD funds. Mr. Prabhakar also alleged that as much as Rs. 400 crore remained as arrears payable by the State government to the Endowments Department under various heads and called upon the government to release it at once to ensure at least minimum pujas in the temples. 
           Mr.Prabhakar said the Tirupati convention would demand the introduction of a Bill in the Assembly against forcible religious conversions in the State.
           He regretted that despite a specific G.O. issued recently to check evangelical activities at places of Hindu religious worship, it has become a mere show piece and ornamental as evidenced by the fact that the problem still continued unabated.
          Systematic State-sponsored conversions are going on in the villages of the State, he charged. He also said that the only way to counter the ‘menace’ was the introduction of the Bill in the House against proselytisation.