"People are committing sins and to get rid of them they are going to temples and offering money," the Chief Minister remarked, during his inaugural address at the two-day conference of district Collectors on Wednesday.
At the same time, he pointed out that sale of liquor was coming down, resulting in reduced income to the State.
“More people are taking [Sabarimala] Ayyapa Swamy ‘deeksha’ and abstaining from liquor consumption for 40 days. To that extent our liquor sales are going down,” he observed, though jocularly.
This is yet another attempt of Naidu in recent times to inject humor into his otherwise stale speeches and statements. But unfortunately, Naidu seems to have missed the point here.
People are going to temples in greater number now to ask God to free them from his rule. Similarly, people are giving up liquor and taking up Ayappa Deeksha for the same reason.
