A meeting between Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy and directors, producers, and actors from the Tollywood industry is underway at Telangana State Police Command and Control Centre at Banjara Hills in Hyderabad.
Film producer and Chairman of the Telangana Film Development Corporation, Dil Raju, has shared that Sri Tej, the victim of the Sandhya Theatre tragedy and the son of Revathi, who lost her life in the incident, is responding well to treatment and has been taken off the ventilator two days ago.
In response to the tragic stampede during the Pushpa 2 premiere in Hyderabad, the Telangana government has banned actor visits to theatres and benefit shows ahead of movie releases.
Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy today slammed the Tollywood film industry for failing to show compassion towards the dead woman and the child injured in the stampede during the benefit show of Pushpa 2 and instead, extending their support to Telugu actor Allu Arjun who was arrested by the police in connection with the case.
Earlier in the day, a local court remanded the actor to judicial custody for 14 days and sent him to Chanchalguda jail under tight security.
The grand old party while expressing grief over the suicide of the 23-year-old blamed the BRS government's “apathy", which led the student to take such an extreme step.
In a setback to the Telangana Congress, Ponnala Laxmaiah, a prominent Backward Class leader resigned from the party apparently after his name didn't figure in the candidate lists from the Jangaon constituency.
Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will kick off the Congress' poll campaign in Telangana on October 18th.
Except for a few Maoist pockets, polls are usually peaceful in the state, but the Commission wants to make the polls inducement-free after the bitter experience of Munugode bypoll.
Shah on Tuesday said contrary to KCR’s (as Rao is popularly called) claim, Telangana was actually number one among the states in terms of farmers’ suicides, crime against women and children, and corruption.
