Though the Movie Artistes Association (MAA) elections 2021 are over, it appears that evidently the tussle between the panel of Prakash Raj and Vishnu Manchu shouldn’t be going to finish anytime quickly. On Tuesday, 11 members of the Prakash Raj panel, who received the recently-held MAA elections, resigned from their posts alleging controversial habits on election day actor Mohan Babu. He additionally cited that it could not be doable to run the MAA in a wholesome surroundings if the manager physique has elected members from two totally different teams.
In the press convention held on Tuesday, Dr. Prakash Raj “Elections are over and outcomes are out. As a Cinema Biddalu panel, we contested the election with many desires, and 11 members received. But, we mentioned a number of incidents that occurred within the final three days. For the sake of MAA, we requested everybody to pick them from a panel. Cross voting befell, leading to a victory for every of the panel members. As a panel, we additionally mentioned the style of MAA election. Even although there was nuisance, change of harsh phrases, injustice within the postal poll votes, we needed to proceed with the election course of. Some individuals abused actors Banerjee and Tanish and thrashed them fiercely. At first, election outcomes had been declared, however the outcomes of the Executive Committee (EC) had been sidelined. In the primary day’s counting, we received 11 seats within the Election Commission. The counting of votes solid on the primary day took practically 5 hours. But the counting of postal poll votes took a day. Surprisingly, hastily the that means modified. He mentioned that now we have received solely 8 seats within the Election Commission.
“After his victory, Vishnu said in a press meet that he would work with all the elected members, but he also hinted at his majority (in the MAA). We felt sorry for it. Is it possible to work together when there are separate and elected members from two different panels? We have seen this for the last two years. We don’t want this to happen again. The winners (from my panel) were skeptical whether they could work in that kind of environment once again. We wondered whether the welfare schemes of MAA would stop due to several issues or when we would question the problems. Vishnu Manchu should do a good job as president of MAA for the next two years. He promised to do a lot for MAA. So we should not be a hindrance to their noble intentions. Also, if he fails to perform his duties, he should not blame us as the reason for his failure. Therefore, after much deliberation, the winners of our panel have decided to resign from their respective positions. It is not a decision which has been taken emotionally, but it is a decision for the benefit of MAA with a sense of responsibility,” he mentioned.
Prakash Raj instructed Vishnu Manchu to behave independently, but in addition warned that if he fails in his tasks as MAA president, he and his panel might be questioned on behalf of the voters. The actor even mentioned that he’ll rethink his resignation from MAA if Vishnu guarantees that there isn’t any exterior and inner difficulty. At the press meet, he additionally dismissed hypothesis about beginning a brand new union for artists.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
