In a fresh twist in the Tirumala controversy – former chief vigilance and security officer of the Tirumala Tirupathi Devsthanam, Ramana Kumar has accused the former chief priest of the temple of misleading the investigation and alleged that the theory of the missing pink diamond was cooked up. Incidentally, the former chief priest. Deekshitulu had earlier alleged that widespread financial irregularities were being perpetrated by the temple authorities and claimed that a rare 32 carrot pink diamond was allegedly missing from the diety’s necklace. The chief priest was removed from his post after he alleged that the administrators of the temple were misusing the money given as donations. However the controversy took a political turn with the TDP alleging that the former chief priest of the temple made these allegations at the behest of BJP, pointing out how days before making the startling allegations, the chief priest had met BJP President Amit Shah.
