A Board member of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams urged the management to send a proposal to the Union government for release of a postal stamp on the much sought after famous ‘Tirupati Laddu’.
G Bhanu Prakash Reddy, the official spokesman for the state BJP, handed over a request letter on the proposal to Dr D Sambasiva Rao, TTD Executive Officer. He had requested Rao to send a proposal to the communication ministry, he said adding that on October 11 2002, the then Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Communications & Information Technology, Pramod Mahajan had released a Rs 15 commemorative postage stamp on ‘Ananda Nilayam Vimanam of the hill shrine at a function at Tirumala during the tenure of N Chandrababu Naidu as the then Chief Minister of united Andhra Pradesh. Reddy hoped that the stamp on Tirupati Laddu would be released in the next two or three months.