HYDERABAD: Telangana minister Konda Surekha sparked an issue on Wednesday, after she blamed BRS working president KT Rama Rao for the divorce of Tollywood actors Naga Chaitanya and Samantha Prabhu. Her feedback drew sharp reactions from the movie trade and became a full-blown political row inside hours.
KTR despatched the Telangana atmosphere minister a authorized discover, demanding an unconditional and open apology and warned her of authorized penalties, together with legal circumstances, if she didn’t retract her feedback inside 24 hours.
“Only for political mileage, you used my identify and allegations. You might be even resorting to character assassination of girls movie actors. Being a minister, you abused your place,” KTR mentioned in his authorized discover, whereas additionally alleging that the minister’s feedback have been a part of a calculated plan to defame him. Veteran Tollywood actor and Chaitanya’s father, Akkineni Nagarjuna, too condemned the minister’s feedback which he mentioned have been all false.
“As a lady in a accountable place, your feedback and accusations towards our household are fully irrelevant and false,” Nagarjuna wrote on his official ‘X’ deal with, urging the minister to withdraw her feedback instantly.
“I strongly condemn the feedback of the minister…Do not use the lives of film stars who avoid politics to criticise your opponents. Please respect different individuals’s privateness…I’m condemning the assertion within the strongest potential phrases,” Nagarjuna wrote. His spouse, Amala Akkineni, additionally lashed out at Konda Surekha for “conjuring evil fiction allegations, preying on first rate residents as gasoline for a political battle”.
“That is actually shameful. If leaders decrease themselves into the gutter and behave like criminals, what is going to occur to our nation?” she added.
