In the midst of a controversy surrounding Telangana Minister Konda Surekha's derogatory comments aimed at Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Naga Chaitanya, Vishnu Manchu, President of the Movie Artistes Association, has issued an official statement. He addresses the pain caused to the families involved and calls for respect and protection of their personal lives. Meanwhile, Konda Surekha clarifies that her comments were meant to question a leader's belittling of women, not to hurt Samantha's sentiments.
The divorce of popular south Indian actors Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Naga Chaitanya caused a huge stir when Telangana minister Konda Surekha publicly accused senior BRS leader KT Rama Rao of being responsible for it. The comments have sparked a war of words between the opposition party and the BRS, with the latter sending a legal notice to Surekha and demanding Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi to step in. The controversy has also garnered reactions from the Akkineni family and other political parties, with the BRS slamming Surekha's remarks as "uncouth, cheap, and disgusting".
Veteran Telugu actor Nagarjuna Akkineni has strongly condemned the comments made by Congress leader Konda Surekha, where she linked Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader KT Rama Rao with the divorce of actors Naga Chaitanya and Samantha Ruth Prabhu, drug abuse, and blackmail. Akkineni demanded that Surekha withdraw her comments and respect the privacy of those in the film industry. He also called her accusations "irrelevant and false." Meanwhile, KTR has not yet responded to the controversy, but his colleague Harish Rao Thanneeru has demanded an apology from the Congress leader.