Complaint on spiritual speaker Chaganti Koteswara Rao

Hyderabad January 17: A spiritual speaker, Chaganti Koteswara Rao, was the center of a controversy, after the All India Yadava Mahasabha, registered a complaint against him for making derogatory comments against the Yadav community and Lord Krishna during a show on a regional TV channel.

The community filed a case with the Cyber Crime Police in Cyberabad.

Ram Chandra Yadav, a resident of Ranga Reddy district, filed the complaint, claiming that the clip of a speech with derogatory comments went viral on social media and demanded the immediate arrest of Chaganti as this incident had affected their image.

Chaganti's programs are aired on regional channels like ETV and Bhakti TV, and he is quite popular among Telugu speaking people.

In April 2016, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu appointed the spiritual guru as the state government's cultural and development adviser, after was impressed by his talk on ‘hard work.’