The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) has refuted the charges that the Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) was abruptly stopped from supplying ghee to the Lord Venkateswara temple. It has also brushed aside the reports that the KMF has been supplying ghee to the temple for the past twenty years.
Terming the reports as ‘outrageous’, TTD Executive Officer A.V. Dharma Reddy, in an exclusive interview with The Hindu on August 2 (Wednesday), said that KMF had supplied ghee to the temple only once in the last two decades.
For the first time, the KMF had bagged the tenders in October 2014 when it stood as L1 (lowest bidder), but is not immediately known whether or not the supply was made. It was only in January 2021 that the KMF was awarded the tender for 20% of the total supply order, despite qualifying as L3 (third lowest bidder).
