KCR Wants To Shape Yadagirigutta As Telangana's TirumalaHot Buzz

July 24, 2015 13:04
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The clash between newly formed states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, has been resembling offended sibling fight for past one year. It has even taken a religious turn, as K Chandrasekhar Rao, Chief Minister of Telangana, wanted Telangana’s own ‘Tirumala’.

Bifurcation of Telugu speaking state, AP, resulted in newly formed Andhra Pradesh keeping hold of Sri Venkateswara Swamy temple at Tirumala, the Sri Mallikarjuna Swamy temple at Srisailam and Sri Kalahasthi temple in Chittoor. Whereas, Telangana is left with pilgrimages of Lord Narasimha at Yadagirigutta and Sri Rama at Bhadrachalam.

At present, KCR wants to shape Yadagirigutta and temple to Sri Laskhmi Narasimha Swamy as his state's own Tirumala.
Owning centuries own traditions, Tirumala is surrounded by the hills, which are seven peaks of Seshachalam range, Eastern Ghats namely Seshadri, Neeladri, Garudadri, Anjanadri, Vrushabadri, Narayanadri and Venkatadri. The temple of Sri Venkateswara is on Venkatadri, the seventh peak. Official support was given to the temple from centuries.

Meanwhile, Yadagirigutta that is located on a single hillock began receiving serious notice from past one year, especially when KCR announced his plans to develop the pilgrimage similar to Tirumala. Since then, visitor stream and the temple revenues begun to see hikes, according to the temple authorities.

Following the renaming of Yadagirigutta as ‘Yadadri’, the Yadagirigutta Temple Development Authority (YTDA) was created by Telangana government to administer the construction of a ‘perfect pilgrimage’ that spread over 2,000 acres at the Yadadri foothills.

Kishen Rao, YTDA Vice-chairman, told TOI that, "Right now, all major temples in Telangana, Bhadrachalam, Vemulavada, Vijayawada or at other locations, attract pilgrims during festivals. The CM wants to provide people of Telangana a religious destination that they can visit throughout the year."  

-Sumana

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Tirumala  Yadagirigutta  Telangana  KCR