Actress Samantha Ruth Prabhu cleared the air on her divorce being amicable and with mutual consent, lashing out at Telangana minister Konda Surekha on Wednesday for linking BRS working president K. T. Rama Rao with her divorce from actor Naga Chaitanya.
She reacted vigorously to the comments made by the minister on the microblogging site X, asking her not to trivialize her journey and be responsible and respectful towards people's privacy. Samantha highlighted her journey and fight in the glamorous industry in the statement that she posted on social media. To be a woman, To come out and work, To survive in a glamours 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…, she writes in her post.
"It takes a lot of courage and strength. Konda Surekha Garu, I am proud of what this journey turned me into -- please do not trivialise it. I hope you realise that your words carry significant weight as a minister. I implore you to be responsible and respectful of individual's privacy," she wrote.
"My divorce is a personal matter, and I request you not to speculate upon it. Our decision to keep things private does not invite misrepresentation. To clarify: my divorce was a mutual consent and amicable affair, absolutely devoid of any political conspiracy. Would you kindly desist from dragging me into political battles? I have always been non-political and would like to remain so," the actress added.
Meanwhile, the stepmother of Naga Chaitanya, Amala Akkineni, reacted to the comments of Konda Surekha. "Shocked to hear a woman minister turn into a demon conjuring evil fiction allegations preying on decent citizens as fuel for a political war. Madam Minister do you rely on and believe people with no decency to feed you utterly scandalous stories about my husband without an iota of shame or truth? This is pretty shameful. What will happen to our country if leaders lower themselves into the gutter and behave like criminals?
she posed on X.
He has appealed to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to make the minister retract her statement. "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 added.
Earlier, Nagarjuna, husband of Amala and father of Naga Chaitanya, had strongly condemned the comments of the minister. He told her not to use the lives of movie stars who stay away from politics to criticize her opponents. "I strongly condemn the comments of the Honorable Minister Mrs Konda Surekha. Don't use the lives of movie stars who stay away from politics to criticize your opponents. Please respect other people's privacy," Nagarjuna posted on X. As a woman in a responsible position, your comments and accusations against our family are totally irrelevant and false. I request you to withdraw your comments immediately, he added.
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