Hyderabad:
Telangana’s Forests Minister Konda Surekha has triggered an enormous controversy together with her allegations towards Bharat Rashtra Samithi chief KT Rama Rao – linking him with the divorce of actors Naga Chaitanya and Samantha Ruth Prabhu, medicine and blackmail. Her feedback have drawn a pointy response from Naga Chaitanya’s father, veteran Telugu actor Nagarjuna Akkineni, who stated her remarks are “fully irrelevant and false” and demanded that she withdraws them.
“I strongly condemn the feedback of the Honorable Minister Mrs. Konda Surekha. Do not use the lives of film stars who avoid politics to criticize your opponents. Please respect different individuals’s privateness,” learn a tough translation of his put up on X, previously Twitter.
“As a lady in a accountable place, your feedback and accusations towards our household are fully irrelevant and false. I request you to withdraw your feedback instantly,” he added.
Mr Rao has not commented on the matter however his celebration chief and former minister Harish Rao Thanneeru has demanded an unconditional apology from the Congress chief.
In a scathing assault on KT Rama Rao, son of former Chief Minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao, Ms Surekha stated he was the rationale why many actresses left the movie business and married early. KT Rama Rao, she claimed, blackmailed movie personalities after getting them hooked on medicine.
She additionally stated that she suspected that the BRS chief was behind a sequence of offensive posts towards her.
The Congress chief had confronted abuse on-line after a photograph exhibiting BJP chief and Medak MP Raghunandan Rao inserting a garland round her neck at a programme. She accused BRS leaders of utilizing the incident to demean her utilizing her gender.
Naga Chaitanya, who parted methods with Samantha Ruth Prabhu two years in the past, acquired engaged to actor Sobhita Dhulipala in August.