Thiruvananthapuram, Oct. 5 -- BJP leader and former Mizoram Governor Kummanam Rajasekharan today launched a scathing attack on the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB), alleging large-scale irregularities in the missing gold sheets donated by industrialist Vijay Mallya to the Sabarimala Lord Ayyappa temple in 1998.
Speaking to reporters here, Kummanam said then UB Group Chairman Mallya had donated 30.3 kg of gold for gold-plating the sanctum sanctorum (Sreekovil) of the hill shrine, including the Dwarapalaka idols"It is a fact that the Dwarapalaka sculptures were plated with gold sheets. But when they were removed in 2019 for renovation, what was taken away was only copper, not gold. The Chennai-based Smart Creation Company, which undertook the...