Hindus should force politicians to amend the laws to strongest possible punishment such as Life imprisonment, for such deliberate acts of defilement, and force judiciary to award the same. — Mahadevayya Karadalli

The horrific incident of defilement of Tirupati Laddu Prasadm with many impurities including beef & Pig tallow, Fish Oil can be compared with the beef, Pig tallow smeared cartridges to Sepoys by East India Company. The latter incident led to First war of Independence, resulting in much weakened EIC handing over Indian affairs to British Crown. Further, British distanced themselves from interfering in Hindus faith. When compared with the forceful response given by Hindus 176 years back, the current response to the heinous act of defiling sacred Prasadam seems to be very mild and almost nonexistent. On the other hand, so called secular lobby consisting of communists, crypto Christians, leftists, and pseudo intellectuals are trying to paint the whole issue as merely a political accusation against the previous former CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and labeling it a fabricated story. But secular lobby shall remember that this is not a such a simple issue as they are trying to paint it to be. Let us read between lines to analyse .

Historic and religious significance of “Tirupati Laddu Prasadam”

The devotion and reverence expressed by Billions of Hindus across the world, to “Lord Venkateshwara” is well known.  In this context, it needs to be highlighted that same level of reverence is expressed for the “Prasadam of Lord i.e., Tirupati Laddu”. The recipe for the preparation of Laddu has a history of more than 300 years and the recipe has been changed only 6 times. This unique recipe, the preparation process and of course the divinity associated for being Prasadm of Lord, Tirupati Laddu, gives its unique Taste. Hence, the defilement of sacred Laddu, with beef and pig tallow, fish oil is not an ordinary issue and implications of such a heinous act goes much beyond of being a mere adulteration issue. 

Is there a larger conspiracy behind this incident?

Hindus shall not take a charitable view that this is just a case of supply of poor quality Ghee by oversight or worse, a case of greed for profit by an unethical supplier. Because upon deeper reflection, Bhakta can come to a reasonable conclusion that a much bigger sinister purpose is behind this incident. It is to defile the holy place of Hindus with a view to slowly bring down the faith and reverence which ordinary, innocent devout Hindus have on Tirupati  temple and its traditions which ultimately result in  slow poison for  Hinduism. 

Just  recollect and review  the  facts after revealing about adulterated Prasadam by the AP Chief Minister. 

-    Till Jagan (a self declared practicing Christian) took over as Chief Minister, the milk cooperative of nearby Karnataka i.e., Nandini was supplying pure ghee at a reasonable price.

-    As soon as Jagan took over, he appointed his own uncle SubbaReddy as the chairman of TTD, which in itself is an unethical action. Mr. SubbaReddy claims that he is a Hindu, whereas his close relatives are Christians, gives rise to doubts about being Hindu. It is said that during his tenure, a good number of Christians and Muslims (whose holy books teach them that Idolatry is a “sin” and it is a holy and heavenly act to resort to all types of immortal action, right from outright violent destruction, to bribing people for conversion to remove the Idolatry.) were employed in the holy temple. 

-    Tender procedures were changed to allow earlier unqualified suppliers to participate who quoted impossibly low prices to grab the order.  Nandini repeatedly pointed out that the price quoted by competitors is so low that it is impossible to supply at those prices commercially, unless the supplier adulterates pure ghee with cheap material such as vegetable oils etc. 

-    In spite of this glaring discrepancy, supply contracts were awarded to unscrupulous suppliers who adulterated Ghee with many impurities viz. Beef, Pig tallow.

-    The above fact was confirmed by testing carried out by independent reputed Private laboratories. 

-    Inspite of huge volume of Ghee purchased at crores of Rupees, no proper quality inspection was perhaps deliberately done before the usage 

-    Not only that Jagan Government ,TTD Board, tempered with the rituals and practices of worship, as alleged by former Chief Priest of Temple. 

Observing the above facts, any reasonable Hindu may come to the conclusion that Government of the day headed by a Christian, deliberately allowed this to happen or worse, actively ensured that such a desecration did take place.  

Awake, Arise to Unite, Protect Hindu faith and culture 

The lesson of adulterated Prasadam reminds about our age old practices of preparing and distribution of Teert and prasadam. Now onwards let each and every temple shall start of having its own Goshala according to their needs. Let them try to grow Food Grains, Vegetables, Fruits and Flowers etc. in the Temple Land. Prasadam and Teerta shall be prepared in a hygienic environment and  under the supervision of Archaks and distributed only after testing. And Let Hindus, take note that, whichever be the Government, no non Hindus were allowed to appoint in the temple Committees, Board. And also see that Hindus, who have faith in the particular temple’s  rituals are only appointed. Government controlling the running of temples is a travesty of “secularism”. Government should immediately handover the management of affairs of temples to the genuine devotees who have faith and reverence to local “Sampradayas’ of the temple. In this aspect let us Hindus be sure that in future such onslaughts on Hindu sentiments will be rightly addressed as and when it happened/occurred immediately without yielding to  fear or favour.

Further, Saints, Math- Mandir Pramukhs shall come out with a easy ritual for Hindus as Prayashitia, for those, who might have visited and taken adulterated Prasadam. Let all Hindus support and accept the rituals to show (as in Carona Period) solidarity. Hindus shall take a clue from Muslims and Christians who play vote bank politics to protect their religion and interests. Let us alert and shall not give room for repeating such an incident by unscrupulous elements in future in any temple.  Hope, Judiciary will also respect the sentiments of majority Hindus. 

Hindus need to act strongly from the angle to “protecting the temple” from the onslaught of nefarious elements. Hindus should force politicians to amend the laws to strongest possible punishment such as Life imprisonment, for such deliberate acts of defilement, and force judiciary to award the same. Bhaktas’ should take much more interest in critically examining the running of temple using Right To Information Act and other legally available means. All the above would be possible, if only the awaked Hindus force the politicians to act, making this a political issue.               

Mahadevayya Karadalli: Writer on Swadeshi Issues, Kalaburagi, Karnataka