{"id":3245,"date":"2003-07-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/07\/01\/2003-07-01-naidu-government-told-hands-off-tirupati-fund\/"},"modified":"2003-07-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-01T12:00:00","slug":"2003-07-01-naidu-government-told-hands-off-tirupati-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/07\/01\/2003-07-01-naidu-government-told-hands-off-tirupati-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Naidu Government Told &#8220;Hands-Off Tirupati Fund&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/news\/printedition\/290603\/detNAT05.shtml\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>HYDERABAD, INDIA, June 28, 2003: When the cash-strapped Chandrababu Naidu government tried to dip into the funds of the Tirupati-Tirumala Devasthanam (TTD), India&#8217;s richest shrine with an annual income of over US$108,126,000, they found resistance from temple authorities, employees, religious leaders and political parties. Naidu had recently directed the temple to contribute $16,261,000 to build an infrastructure for the Godavari puskaram &#8212; a mini Kumbha Mela &#8212; beginning next month, as well as an additional $1,084,000 for the golden jubilee festivities of the Venkateswara University. The government met with such opposition they were forced to downsize the request to less than one-half the original amount or face the threat of public agitation if they persisted with their request for funding. The much-respected Tridandi Sriman Narayana Ramanuja Chinna Jeer Swamy has criticized the move as an &#8220;unhealthy practice&#8221; and said, &#8220;The government should explore alternative sources.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceHYDERABAD, INDIA, June 28, 2003: When the cash-strapped Chandrababu Naidu government tried to dip into the funds of the Tirupati-Tirumala,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}