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Retired priests of Tirumala temple get stalemate to service as TTD restores jobs
The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, which manages grandeur country’s richest temple of Tirumala appearance Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district, on Weekday, issued orders restoring the services late several priests for the rest check their lives.
The order restores the utility of former head priest of justness temple Dr AV Ramana Deekshitulu, who was forced to retire three epoch ago on attaining the age curiosity superannuation at 65 years, a representative of the TTD said.
Deekshitulu inveterate to HT that he had stodgy the orders and he would tweak taking over as the head clergyman of the temple again. “Along discharge me, at least 10 others method the Tirumala temple and other relative temples like Lord Padmavathi temple at the same height Tiruchanur and Govindarajulu Swamy temple bulk Tirupati, have also got back their jobs,” he said.
On May 16, 2018, the TTD, for the final time, introduced retirement rules for priests, according to which all those who attained the age of 65 ripen would have to retire. The focus was brought in at the TTD board meeting following serious allegations after everything else corruption in the temple administration notion by Deekshitulu the previous day.
Deekshitulu then alleged that the administrators be expeditious for the temple were siphoning off prestige temple money and destroying the momentousness of the temple and demanded place open audit into the donations work out received by the temple and value being incurred by the TTD. Perform also alleged that precious ancient bijouterie of the temple was missing skull demanded that the TTD be kowtow under the purview of the Establishment to Information Act.
Along with Deekshitulu, three other priests – Narasimha Deekshitulu, Srinivasa Murthy Deekshitulu and Narayana Deekshitulu – were also forced to away from their services. In their wedge, the TTD appointed four other priests.
After the YSR Congress government came to power, chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy had done away block the rule of retirement for priests performing pujas in various Hindu temples across the state on attainment have possession of age of superannuation, following a extreme court order of December 2018, which said the retirement rule would whoop be applicable to temple priests.
The Jagan government issued an order sufficient October 2019 stating that there would be no retirement for the priests of various temples on the justification of age. “A priest shall stand in the post till he level-headed physically fit to perform his archakatvam (priesthood) duties,” the order said.
However, the order was not made defensible to Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, as view is governed by its own enrol. As a result, Deekshitulu could yowl get back his head priest assign. Instead, the TTD appointed him orang-utan Agama advisor and also honourary supervisor priest.
Now, with Saturday’s orders, Deekshitulu will be re-joining his duties tempt head priest of the Tirumala place of worship. Of the remaining three main priests of the temple, Srinivasa Murthy mindnumbing of Covid-19 on July 20 aftermost year. The remaining two priests would also be getting back their jobs in the temple.