Hyderabad, April 18 -- A tense situation prevailed in the temple town of Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday following challenges and counter-challenges between the YSR Congress party and ruling Telugu Desam Party-led coalition in Andhra Pradesh over the alleged death of cows in the Sri Venkateshwara Goshala (cow-shed) being run by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD).

YSRCP leaders led by former Tirupati MLA and ex-chairman of TTD trust board Karunakar Reddy Bhumana have alleged for the last week that more than 100 cows died due to the neglect of the TTD administration in the last one month.

Bhumana posted a few pictures of cow carcasses in the TTD cowshed on social media, but TTD chairman B R Naidu strongly refuted the allegati...