TIRUPATI, INDIA, April 6, 2007: The Chittoor district unit of the Kula Vivaksha Porata Samithi (KVPS) on Thursday welcomed the decision of the Tirumalar Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) to provide entry for Dalits into the Venkateswaraswamy temple located in the Vemuru village in the Tirupati (rural) mandal. The Samithi’s vice-president and the CPI(M) district secretary K. Murali also complimented the TTD for organising a Kalyanothsavam ritual in the Dalitwada and also making the temple priests stay in the same colony. In a statement, Mr. Murali particularly complimented TTD Board Chairman B. Karunakara Reddy for being instrumental in taking of the decision and urged him to take similar initiatives in respect of some more temples in the district which still practized discrimination against the Dalits.
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