Prakash Raj Takes On Vishnu Manchu In Direct Fight For MAA President – FilmyVoice

Hyderabad, Oct 3 (IANS) The battle strains are drawn for the October 10 elections for Film Artistes Affiliation (MAA), the apex physique of Tollywood.

With CVL Narasimha Rao and Ok. Shravan Kumar withdrawing their nominations, actor Prakash Raj is locked in a direct battle with Vishnu Manchu for the put up of MAA president.

A complete of 56 candidates are within the fray for elections to 26-member physique of MAA. Election officer Krishna Mohan introduced the ultimate checklist of candidates after the withdrawal of nominations.

Babu Mohan and Srikanth will vie for the put up of MAA government president. For the 2 posts of vice-presidents, actor-producer Madhala Ravi and comic Prithviraj Bali Reddy are contesting from Vishnu panel. From Prakash Raj’s panel, Benerjee and Hema are within the fray for a similar posts.

For the important thing put up of normal secretary, Jeevita Rajasekhar is contesting as a candidate from Prakash Raj’s panel. She is locked in a direct battle with Raghu Babu from Vishnu’s panel.

Bandla Ganesh had additionally filed his nomination for the put up however withdrew from the competition on the recommendation of business elders.

For the put up of treasure, actor Siva Balaji (Vishnu’s panel) is pitted in opposition to Nagineedu (Prakash Raj Panel).

Character actor Karate Kalyani and comic Gautham Raju from Vishnu’s panel will probably be testing their fortunes for the put up of joint secretaries. Uttej, Anit Chowdary and Bacchala Srinivas are additionally within the fray for the 2 posts.

A complete of 39 candidates are within the fray for 18 posts of government members. The candidates from Vishnu’s panel for these posts are Archana (Veda), Ashok Kumar, Geeta Singh, Harinath Babu, Jayavani, Malakpeta Shailaja, Manik, Poojitha, Rajeshwari Reddy, Rekha, Sampoornesh Babu, Shashank, Sivannarayana, Silakshmi, P. Srinivasulu, Swapna Madhu, Vishnu Bopanna and M.R.C. Vadlapatla.

Prakash Raj panel consists of Srikanth, Uttej, Anasuya, Ajay, Bhopal, Brahmaji, ETV Prabhakar, Govind Rao, Khayyum, Kaushik, Pragathi, Ramanareddy, Sridhar Rao, Shivareddy, Sameer, Sudigali Sudhir, Subbaraju, Suresh Kondetti, Tanish, and Tarzan.

Greater than 900 film artists will solid their votes on October 10. Digital Voting Machines will probably be used for the polling to be held at Jubliee Public College in Movie Nagar from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Outcomes will probably be introduced the identical night.

Prakash Raj was the primary to announce his panel and he has been actively campaigning. He additionally acquired assist from actors Jeevitha Rajasekhar and Hema, who dropped their plans to contest in opposition to him and joined his panel.

“I got here right here to serve the movie business. I need to serve my fellow artistes and business individuals,” Prakash Raj had stated whereas asserting his panel

Prakash Raj, who unsuccessfully contested as an unbiased candidate in 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Bengaluru Central, made cautious manoeuvres to win the assist of many. He urged the MAA members to solid their conscience vote.

“#MaaElections2021… Your vote is your voice.. The welfare of MAA is our viewpoint. Let’s vote with conscience and make sure the victory of MAA aspirations,” the actor tweeted after submitting his nomination final week.

It additionally consists of Uttej as Joint Secretary, Banerjee as Vice President, Hema as Vice President, Srikanth as Government Vice President, and Jeevitha Rajasekhar as Normal Secretary.

Tollywood sources say Prakash Raj has significantly shiny probabilities of successful the election as MAA president. He enjoys the backing of Megastar Chiranjeevi and his members of the family.

Then again, Vishnu acquired the assist from outgoing president Naresh, who criticized Prakash Raj.

“Within the 25 years historical past of MAA, have you ever solid your vote at the very least as soon as? Did you attend any normal physique assembly,” he requested Prakash Raj.

In 2019, actor-producer Naresh was elected as MAA president, defeating Shivaji Raja, who was contesting for second consecutive time period

On the Naresh panel, Jeevitha Rajasekhar was elected as normal secretary whereas her husband actor Rajasekhar was elected as government vice-president.

Naresh stated although one yr of his time period was wasted due to Covid-19 pandemic, he labored effectively for the welfare of all. He alleged that some outsiders influenced about 11 members and blocked the welfare works for underneath privileged artists.

He claimed that for the primary time in MAA historical past, his panel offered insurance coverage for 900 members. “If any member died, we ensured the insurance coverage cash of Rs 3 lakh reached the deceased household,” he stated.

–IANS

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