TIRUPATI: Chaos prevailed at the trust board meeting of the

(TTD) held at Annamaiah Bhavan at Tirumala on Tuesday, after some trust board members deviated from the set agenda and targeted Tirumala JEO KS Sreenivasa Raju straight-away, forcing the officials including TTD EO

Singhal and JEO KS Sreenivasa Raju to walk-out and boycott the meeting.

Though media was not allowed inside the meeting hall when the meeting began, confirmed sources told TOI that immediately after the trust board meeting under the chairmanship of Putta Sudhakar Yadav began, trust board member Challa Ramachandra Reddy and some other members started levelling accusations against JEO KS Sreenivasa Raju and used unparliamentary language against him. A senior official felt it was a well-planned act to target the senior TTD official.

Even as the members behaviour was going out of control, TTD chairman Putta Sudhakar Yadav who was supposed to have intervened and set things in order remained a mute spectator.

However, TTD EO Anil Kumar Singhal took a strong objection to the manner in which the board members were using unsavoury language against the JEO and warned the trust board members not to cross the line. And registering a strong protest against the unruly behaviour of the trust board members, TTD EO Anil Kumar Singhal and JEO KS Sreenivasa Raju walked out and boycotted the trust board meeting.

A senior official observed the trust board members completely deviated from the subject and resorted to personal attacks on an official which is unacceptable. ''The trust board meeting was convened in the first place only to render services to the visiting devotees and not to satisfy the personal egos of the trust board members'', he added.

After spending about 30 odd minutes after the EO and JEO walked out of the meeting, TTD chairman Putta Sudhakar Yadav exited the meeting hall and told media persons that the officials had boycotted the trust board meeting though the trust board wanted to discuss the set-agenda and pass certain key resolutions.

"The meeting began as usual with the prayer. But officials did not initiate the agenda and walked out of the meeting. Though we waited for the officials to return, they did not," he added.

Speaking to media persons on the developments, TTD trust board member Challa Ramachandra Reddy who resigned from the membership said the officials had walked out of the meeting after he levelled accusations against Tirumala JEO. "Though we took several key decisions for the convenience of the devotees in the last one year, none of them were implemented properly because the JEO is more interested in running around politicians and VIPs. ''What has he achieved as JEO during his longest stint for 8 years now. He has been continuing in the post by managing those in power every time," he alleged.

In the end, the trust board meeting held at Tirumala on Tuesday after a gap of almost three months now, concluded on an unpleasant note without passing any resolutions at all and the administrative

of the TTD felt this could very well be the last trust board meeting under the chairmanship of Putta Sudhakar Yadav.