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Though both met a couple of times, unpleasant developments took place with his extended family. Anand visited her till 1996 after which poor health did not permit him to meet her.Īnand’s second marriage limited Sachaita’s access to him, though he told her that his blessing would always be with him. The couple, who had two girls, divorced in 1991 and Uma married filmmaker Ramesh Sharma.Īnand later married Sudha and a daughter was born from this wedlock.īorn in Hyderabad and schooled in Delhi, Sanchaita was brought up by Uma. The main bone of contention, however, is the locus standi of Sanchaita, born to the late Anand and Uma Gajapathy Raju. The event, for which Ashok was invited, was cancelled at the eleventh hour and then the State Government came up with the order on 3 March appointing Sanchaita as the chairperson. The Andhra Pradesh Government had reconstituted the Simhachalam Temple trust’s board on 2 February and the members were scheduled to be sworn in on 29 February. Even the BJP has questioned why she should be sworn in within 24 hours of the government order being issued. What has raised hackles of Reddy’s opponents is the haste with which Sanchaita was sworn in as the chairperson of both trusts.
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The trust, set up with 13,000 acres and other properties, provides financial support to at least 12 educational institutions. MANSAS was set up on 12 November 1958 by the last Maharaja of Vizianagaram P V G Raju by donating vast tracts of land in memory of his father Maharaja Alak Narayan Gajapathi Raju to promote education and continue administration of educational institutions under the patronage of the royal family. The Simhachalam Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Devasthanam Trust runs the Simhachalam or Simhadri temple, which is 18 km from Visakhapatnam and dedicated to the Narasimha avatar of Lord Vishnu. Sanchaita’s appointment, a shrewd move to replace Ashok, has brought to limelight the infighting in the erstwhile royal family of the Gajapathis in Vizianagaram, a sleepy town 60 km from Visakhapatnam. The appointment of Sanchaita, national executive member of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, has angered the State Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has issued a notice to her. Sanchita is the daughter of late Anand Gajapathi Raju, Ashok’s elder brother who died in 2016.Īnand, who was first with the Congress and then the TDP, headed the trust from 1994 until his death. Through the order, Sanchaita Gajapati Raju has replaced Ashok as the chairman of the Simhachalam Sri Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Devasthanam Trust and MANSAS (Maharaja Alak Narayan Society of Arts and Science) Trust Board. At the centre of the storm is a State Government order dated 3 March.