Jagan Reddy's Pooja Call To Clear Chandrababu Naidu's "Sin" Amid Laddoo Row

YSR Congress party chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has called on the people to take part in a pooja -- religious rituals -- across Andhra Pradesh this Saturday to "atone for the sin" allegedly committed by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu by making allegations that animal fat was used in preparing laddoos at the Tirupati temple.

Mr Reddy's appeal comes amid a massive political storm in the state after Mr Naidu, whose TDP routed YSRCP in the recently held state polls, alleged that under the previous Jagan Reddy government, animal fat was used to make the laddoos given as 'prasad' at Sri Venkateswara Temple in Tirupati.

"YSRCP is calling for statewide rituals in temples to sanitise this sin committed by Chandrababu on Saturday, September 28," the former Chief Minister said in a post on X.