{"id":118816,"date":"2018-04-11T02:04:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T20:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=118816"},"modified":"2018-04-11T02:04:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T20:34:01","slug":"director-k-raghavendra-rao-shaves-beard-at-tirupati-temple-for-andhra-special-status-india-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=118816","title":{"rendered":"Director K Raghavendra Rao shaves beard at Tirupati temple for Andhra special status | India Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s been no dearth of novel protests in support of Special Category Status for Andhra Pradesh, and for concomitant concessions from the Centre.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the film director K Raghavendra Rao shaved his beard and offered prayers at the Tirupati temple, seeking SCS for the state.<\/p>\n

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The common custom for devotees is to tonsure their heads and offer their hair to the temple deity – Lord Venkateswara – when their wishes are fulfilled.<\/p>\n

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Rao, 75, says his special act will soon bring the people of Andhra Pradesh good news. “In the past, I have tonsured my head clean here several times after my wish was fulfilled”, he said.<\/p>\n

The veteran director, known predominantly for his work in Telugu cinema, is a staunch supporter of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP).<\/p>\n

He’s made several promotional films for the party and for the Chandrababu Naidu government. He has also served as an executive member of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam Board.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the TDP MPs who rolled out their dramatic protests within the precincts of Parliament – and concluded them with a march towards the Prime Ministers residence – are now returning to their constituencies to step up their campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s been no dearth of novel protests in support of Special Category Status for Andhra Pradesh, and for concomitant concessions from the Centre. On Monday, the film director K Raghavendra Rao shaved his beard and offered prayers at the Tirupati temple, seeking SCS for the state. The common custom for devotees is to tonsure their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1134],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}