Did the Chief Minister of Chattisgarh Sri Raman Singh have three darshan of  Lord  Venkateswara  on Thursday  seeking  a relief  from the  Maoist menace hurting  the BJP rule  in  his state ? .
 
Raman Singh , Punjab Governor Shivraj  Patil  and AP Governor  ESL Narasimhan  and a half a dozen  union and state ministers had several darshan over the intervening 12 hours of Thursday night and Friday morning and blocked the common darshan at Temple of Venkateswara for over 5 hours thereby denying darshan for nearly 55 ,000  devotees . News of  VVIP break darshans had led to wide protests from common devotees aired by local news channels.

 
TTD  sources say that  all them had  repeated darshans -Raman Singh had three darshans, ESL Narasimhan and Shivraj Patil  had two darshan .  All participated in the  Friday's auspicious abhishekam for which common devotees have to wait for years to make booking. Narasimhan is popular in Tirumala as devotee No-1 as he is regular visitor on alternative Fridays and Saturdays. It is said that Raman Singh was advised to seek darshan of Lord Venkateswara to revive his fortunes  and hence had come along with family and friends to Tirumala on Thursday night .
 
The TTD officials  were under heavy pressure  on  Friday  with  almost  75,000  devotees waiting  for hours  for darshan of Lord Venkateswara . They had to extend the VIP  darshan break in the morning   to facilitate  the VVIPS  for a maximum of   3-1-2 hours  to facilitate all of them. There  has been a mad rush to the Tirumala during the week in view of the last days of the summer holidays and school reopening from Monday . During the entire week  the TTD officials were  under  extreme pressure  as devotees came in large numbers  by walk and also  by transports. 'As of Saturday morning  we have nearly  85,000 in queue lines  for darshan and hope to satisfy all by  Sunday  afternoon ' said a senior TTD official.

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