YSRCP leader Bhumana Karunakar Reddy addressed the media in Tirupati on Thursday. | Photo credit: KV POORNACHANDRA KUMAR
The YSRCP has raised eyebrows over the recently awarded contract to supply ghee to Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) by Indapur Dairy and Milk Products Limited, a Maharashtra-based manufacturing unit of Heritage Foods run by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu’s family.
Speaking to the media on Thursday, YSRCP Chittoor district president Bhumana Karunakar Reddy, who previously served as TTD board chairman, pointed out “scores of inaccuracies” in the allegations leveled by Mr Naidu against YSRCP’s earlier acquittal over the ghee procurement issue.
Mr. Karunakar Reddy specifically referred to Mr. Naidu’s repeated statements in the past that pure ghee can never be supplied at a price of ₹300, indirectly attributing the alleged supply of adulterated ghee to TTD to the YSRCP regime’s insistence on a “very low price”.
In this context, he recalled that the Indapur dairy supplied 16.50 lakh kg of ghee at a price of ₹306/kg in 2015, less than a year after Mr. Naidu took over the reins of the bifurcated state.
“The then TTD specified authority chairman JSV Prasad approved the contract on January 15, 2015,” he recalled.
Mr. Reddy also wondered whether using the name of its manufacturing unit “Indapur Dairy” to apply for the contract was an obvious attempt to mask the name of the more popular “Heritage Foods” to avoid undue public influence on the tender process.
“After Mr Naidu repeatedly stated that pure ghee could never be supplied at around Rs 300 per kg, his family’s manufacturing unit Heritage Foods contracted for ₹ 658 in December 2025. We now suspect that this is a deliberate ploy to tune people’s minds to accept a higher than normal price,” he noted.
Published – 12 Feb 2026 21:11 IST