Vijayawada, Feb. 20 -- Telugu Desam Party on Friday accused the Opposition YSRCP of engineering a calculated political smokescreen to escape accountability in the alleged adulterated ghee scandal linked to the preparation of Tirumala laddu prasadam.
Addressing a press conference, State president Palla Srinivasa Rao said the findings reportedly emerging from a CBI inquiry had exposed what he described as "systemic administrative collapse" under the previous regime.
"The laddu prasadam is not a commercial commodity. It is sacred," Srinivasa Rao said, asserting that any compromise in its purity constitutes an assault on the spiritual trust of millions of devotees across the world.
The TDP leader alleged that rather than initiating transpare...