For the first time in the history of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD), the hundi collection registered a record income of Rs 7.68 crore on the day of Vaikunta Ekadasi on January 2.
According to the ABP Desam report, this is the highest-ever hundi income ever made in a single day at the hill shrine temple in Tirumala. On Sunday, 69,414 devotees offered prayers.
The previous highest collection for Tirumala Hundi was Rs. 6.31 crores on October 23, 2022.
According to the Deccan Chronicle report, elected officials from Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and other states, judges, bureaucrats, celebrities, and other VIPs visited the hill temple in Tirumala on Monday, marking the Vaikunta Ekadasi, for the darshan of Lord Venkateswara.
Reportedly, the VIPs included former Union minister Prakash Javadekar, acting chief justice of the Tamil Nadu High Court T Raja, AP High Court judges Justice T Rajasekhar Rao, Justice M Ganga Rao, Justice V Srinivas, Justice Ravinath Tilhari, Telangana HC judges Justice EV Venugopal, Justice Surepalli Nanda, Punjab High Court judge Justice Rajesh Bhardwaj, and Karnataka High Court judge Justice Dinesh Kumar.
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AP ministers who had Vaikunta Dwara Darshan included Deputy CMs Narayana Swamy, Muthyala Naidu, K Nageswara Rao, P Ramachandra Reddy, Ambati Rambabu, Ushari Charan, M Nagarjuna, G Amarnath, P Viswaroop, G Jayaram, and government whips K Dharmasri, Srikanth Reddy, and Prasad Raju. MPs PV Mithun Reddy, V Prabhakar Reddy, M Gurumurthy, and CM Ramesh also had darshan.
At the hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara, several Telangana ministers, MLAs, and MLCs offered worship.
On the eve of Vaikunta Ekadasi, several elected officials from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and other states offered prayers at the Lord Venkateswara temple at Tirumala.
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