Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) Additional Executive Officer A.V. Dharma Reddy has said that advance measures initiated by the temple trust board helped it deal with the sudden surge in devotee count at the Lord Venkateswara temple at Tirumala.
In an apparent reference to TDP national president N. Chandrababu Naidu’s remarks that the devotees were subjected to severe difficulties owing to the failure of the TTD management in providing proper shelter and drinking water at the counters, Mr. Dharma Reddy on Wednesday said that issuing of ‘sarva darshan tokens’ was stopped since April 9, with the exhaustion of the tokens for the next three days.
