Tirupati Laddu row: Pawan Kalyan backs Naidu's statement on ghee adulteration, says CM spoke about issue at internal party meeting

TIRUPATI: Deputy chief minister Pawan Kalyan backed chief minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu over the laddu-ghee adulteration remarks and maintained that Naidu made the statement on ghee adulteration at an internal meeting of NDA members, comprising MPs and MLAs, and had not gone to the press, as observed by the Supreme court.
At the ‘Varahi public meeting’ organised here on Thursday, Pawan Kalyan asked the public, especially the national media, to take a broad view of his response to the issue surrounding the alleged use of adulterated ghee at the Tirumala issue.
There is no attempt to politicise the issue, he said. “I have the highest regard for judiciary. However, I want to remind that I have been referring to instances related to violation of sanctity by the TTD’s erstwhile trust board members during the last five years”, he said.
Responding to the attack by YSRCP leaders for personally targeting Jagan, he clarified that he had never blamed the then Chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy for the issue, but only accused the trust board formed by his government. “Did I ever say Jagan made the Laddus with his hands? I only asked him to stay accountable to the misdeeds occurred in his regime”.
Referring to YSRCP leaders moving the Supreme court on the ghee issue, the Deputy Chief minister appealed to the judiciary to estimate Jagan’s integrity by going through the scores of cases pending against him.