Former Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam Board chairman, Bhumana Karunakar Reddy was, in the early hours of Tuesday, shifted to hospital by the police on the 4th day of his indefinite fast, as his health condition deteriorated.
The former TTD chairman had launched an indefinite hunger strike on Friday to press the government into announcing a CBI inquiry into corruption charges leveled against him by Opposition members.
Karunakar Reddy was shifted to Ruia Hospital, where doctors said that his blood pressure, sugar and pulse rate dipped.
The state government had already turned down Reddy's demand to order the CBI probe.
The former TTD chairman accused the police of trying to foil his fast. He said that this was done in view of Chief Minister K Rosaiah's schedule visit to Tirupati on Wednesday.
Karunakar Reddy vowed to carry on with his fast at the hospital till the time the government orders a CBI probe into the allegations made against him.