Kondagattu got a ribbon, not a site
Rs 35.19 crore was sanctioned and a foundation stone was laid in January. Eight months on, the only thing moving is the Congress–Jana Sena slanging match — and there’s still no public paper showing the work has even started, let alone been stopped.
Eight months after the foundation ceremony, the promised Kondagattu facilities remain undocumented on site.
Here’s the record, minus the posters. Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) cleared Rs 35.19 crore for facilities at Kondagattu — a 96-room pilgrim accommodation block and a Deeksha Viramana Mandapam sized for roughly 2,000 devotees — and Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan came to lay the foundation on January 3, 2026, alongside TTD chairman B.R. Naidu. Telangana minister Adluri Lakshman Kumar attended. According to multiple reports from the time, that much happened.
Since then, the noise rose and the paperwork didn’t. A report this week claimed the project is “on hold” amid a row between Pawan and Telangana minister Ponnam Prabhakar. What the public record does not show is an order from TTD, the Telangana Endowments Department or the temple authorities pausing the works, a contractor work order, funds-release details or even a current status note. The bickering is on the record; a halt is not.
For the BJP’s Andhra ally and the Congress in Telangana, this has been great content: Pawan promised kar seva and a giri-pradakshina path; Prabhakar called him a “paid artist” and demanded an apology for remarks about Telangana being someone’s fiefdom. None of that builds a room in Kondagattu. If either side has actually stopped or started anything on site, they’ve kept the documents to themselves.
One more nuisance: the marketing slides don’t match. January reports say 96 rooms and a mandapam; the newer claim says a 100-room guest house and a 2,000-seat hall. Until someone shows the sanction and the work order, Telangana gets a foundation photo and a fight. The Congress and its friends can explain why that counts as progress.