For the second time in known history  archakas of  Lord Venkateswara  temple  at Toirumala have threatened to go on mass leave tomorrow  to participate in the  Samaikhyandra  agittion on Friday . According to Dr A V Ramana Dikshitulu and  Bhattachrya , the Agama ritual consultant  the rituals in Srivari temple on  Friday would be performedby archakas  and tachers of the Vedic Pathashala  at Dharmagiri  with the help of priests drawn from other  temples  of  the Vaikhanasa cult in Temple town .

Only a select band of 40 priests of Vaikhanasa cult perform  the daily rituals  at Lord Venkateswara  temple at Torumala on shift basis.�� 'But  rituals in main tempe at Tirumala will not be stopped  even if there is  earth quake 'says Ramana Dikshitulu .At the most some of the special arjita sevas  could be withheld  but not the daily poojas like Suprabhatham, etc. Friday is the day of official Abhisekham for which devotees would ahve booked for years in avance ( 2 years advance) which can not be postponed or stopped.

TTD is upset that  its  servies  are hit  by the agitation as not only employees  were stopped  from entering the temples and offices  but  also the devotees are stopped from entering the Tiruapti and  Tirumala  through devious means .' Agitators  say that without devotees  what work can employees  do ? and that is why we are dissuading the devotees  from coming to Tirupati during the agitation period '. Meanthile the TTD has  announed that  there was a  40 percent  reduction in revenue ,  50 per cent fall in sales of laddus  and other products .' But  collection in hundi  has remainede static , though it suffered for a day or two and came back to normalcy now

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