Amid Opposition Flak, Andhra Chief Minister’s Cow Puja Today
Amravati:
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy will take part in “Kamadhenu Gopuja” or the worship of cows right this moment on Kanuma, the day after Pongal when cows are worshipped, amid growing assaults by the opposition that he has been neglecting Hindus.
The occasion is being organised by Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam or TTD and International Society for Krishna Consciousness or ISKCON at Narsaraopeta in Guntur district.
State Home Minister Sucharitha, MP Krishna Devarayalu, MLA Srinivasa Reddy and Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam executives AV Dharma Reddy and P Basanth Kumar inspected the Sports Authority Stadium Grounds at Narasaraopet the place the sacred Kamadhenu Puja (Gopuja) will probably be carried out by the temple belief.
For a long time, the TTD had been conducting Gopuja on Kanuma competition day. This 12 months, moreover the 50 TTD temples, Gopuja will probably be carried out in any respect 996 temples beneath the state endowments division on January 15.
“It is a good fortune for the people of Narasaraopeta that the event is being conducted by TTD in the town where the Chief Minister will also take part. This sacred event would bring good fortune to the state,” Home Minister Sucharitha mentioned.
The Chief Minister’s proposed participation within the cow puja comes at a time when political events, from the BJP to the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), appear to be clamouring to articulate the Hindutva ideology.
Criticising latest assaults on temples, Telugu Desam president and opposition chief Chandrababu Naidu had mentioned some 25 Hindu temples had been vandalised as a result of the state has a “Christian chief minister, a Christian home minister and even a Christian DGP (police chief)”.
The BJP has accused the Chief Minister of not sending a stern message to mischief-makers, emboldening them.
