South star Nagarjuna Akkineni and his wife Amala Akkineni slammed Telangana minister Konda Surekha for her controversial remark linking Bharat Rashtra Samiti chief KT Rama Rao for the separation between actors Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Naga Chaitanya. Amala took to her Instagram handle to condemn Surekha's comments and wrote, ''Shocked to hear a woman minister turn into a demon, conjuring evil fictions allegations, preying on decent citizens as fuel for a political war.''
Expressing her outrage on the minister's remarks and calling it 'shameful', she added, ''Madam Minister, do you rely and believe people with no decency to feed you utterly scandalous stories about my husband without an iota of shame or truth? This is really shameful.''
In her post, Amala also asked Rahul Gandhi to restrain his politicians from making such comments and make Surekha retract her 'venemous statements' along with an apology to her family. "If leaders lower themselves into the gutter and behave like criminals, what will happen to our country? Mr Rahul Gandhiji, if you believe in human decency, please restrain your politicians and make your minister retract her venomous statements with an apology to my family. Protect the citizens of this country," she concluded her post.
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Earlier, Samantha herself reacted to the remarks and said that her divorce was a 'personal matter'. Taking to her Instagram in the Stories section, she clarified that her divorce was 'mutual consent and amicable' and there was no political conspiracy involved. Samantha also requested people to stop speculating about her divorce.
"To be a woman, to come out and work, to survive in a glamorous industry where women are more often than not treated as props, to fall in love & to fall out of love, to still stand up and fight... It takes a lot of courage and strength," the statement read.
Pushpa fame Allu Arjun has also condemned the minister's comment and called it 'deeply disrespectful'. ''I strongly condemn the baseless derogatory comments made about film personalities and film families.This behavior is deeply disrespectful and goes against the values of our Telugu culture. Such irresponsible actions should not be accepted as normal. I urge the parties involved to act more responsibly and respect individual privacy, especially towards women. We must promote respect and dignity in society as a whole,'' he wrote.
Now, the minister Konda Surekha has also apologised in a series of post on her X handle and wrote, ''My comments are meant to question a leader's belittling of women and not to hurt your @Samanthaprabhu2 sentiments. The way you have grown up with self-power is not only an admiration for me.. but also an ideal.''
For the unversed, Nagarjuna's son Naga was married to Samantha and the two announced their separation on social media in a joint statement in 2021.
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