KCR's new offering to the gods: A gold moustache worth Rs 60,000
KCR's latest donation came two days after he attracted controversy for offering gold ornaments worth Rs 5 crore to Lord Venkateswara in Tirupati.
In Short
- KCR today made an offering of a gold mustache at the Kuravi Veerabhadra Swamy temple.
- The offering was worth Rs 60,000.
- The Telangana chief minister earlier donated gold ornaments worth Rs 5 lakh to Lord Venkateswara in Tirupati.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao made an offering of a bangaru meesalu (gold moustache) to Kuravi Veerabhadra Swamy temple in Mahabubabad district.
Rao made the offering while being accompanied by his family. The gold mustache, which was presented to the temple's presiding deity, is worth Rs 60,000.
This comes just two days after KCR made a offering of gold ornaments worth a staggering Rs 5 crore to Lord Venkateswara in Tirupati, inviting criticism from the opposition over "misuse" of public funds. The funds for the offering, it emerged, had been drawn from the state government's coffers.
For that offering, he was accompanied by his family as well as members of the Telengana assembly and certain government officials.
He had donated the jewellery at the famous hill shrine to express his gratitude to the lord for materialising Telangana, the state for whose creation the Telangana Rashtra Samithi leader waged a prolonged movement.
The chief minister was said to have taken a vow to make the offering following fulfillment of his dream of a separate Telangana state.
(With inputs from PTI)
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