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.
Speaking to reporters hours after PM Modi’s claim, KTR said that Modi lowered the stature of Prime Minister’s position by speaking “outright lies”.
The PM declared that the Congress and BRS are same and accused both the parties of betraying people of Telangana.
Unless the three promises made during the bifurcation of the unified Andhra Pradesh were fulfilled, BJP would lose deposits in more than 100 seats in the state in the upcoming Assembly elections, said the BRS working president.
Arvind Dharmapuri, a BJP MP from Telangana, took a swipe at Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Monday, saying that if the "Bharat Rashtra Samithi's steering wheel is KCR hands, then it means it is in a drunkard's hand".
He praised the medal winners for bringing laurels to Telangana and making India proud.
