Tollywood Cast Votes In Closely Fought MAA Elections – FilmyVoice

Megastar Chiranjeevi in addition to main actors Pawan Kalyan, Balakrishna and Nagarjuna have been among the many notable Tollywood personalities who solid their votes on Sunday to elect new office-bearers of the Film Artists Affiliation (MAA), the apex physique of the Telugu movie trade.

Murali Mohan, Mohan Babu, Jaya Prada, Rajendra Prasad, Roja, Babu Mohan, Naga Babu and different main lights of the trade additionally participated within the vote. Polling, which started at 8 a.m. on the Jubilee Hills Public College, was progressing easily.

It was to finish at 2 p.m., however was prolonged by an hour by the election officer, Krishna Mohan. Until 1.30 p.m., 56 per cent of the voters had solid their ballots. Out of the 925 MAA members, 883 are eligible to vote. Of them, 503 had solid their ballots.

The counting of votes can be taken up at 4 p.m. and is more likely to proceed until 8 p.m., when the outcomes are slated to be declared.

MAA members have been voting to elect a 26-member government comprising the president, common secretary, two joint secretaries, treasurer, and 18 committee members.

Retired staff of the Telangana Cooperative Society made elaborate preparations for the polling in adherence with Covid-19 protocols. As many as 50 policemen and girls have been deployed as a part of the safety measures.

After a bitter marketing campaign between the panels led by acclaimed actor Prakash Raj and actor-producer Manchu Vishnu, scenes of camaraderie have been witnessed on the polling day. The 2 contenders battling for the publish of MAA president shook palms and embraced one another to declare that they’re all one.

Prakash Raj additionally shook palms with Mohan Babu, who’s additionally Vishnu’s father, and took his blessings. Mohan Babu had arrived early on the polling sales space to bless his son and claimed that the panel loved help of majority of voters.

Megastar and MAA founding president Chiranjeevi stated he had solid his vote as per his conscience. He stated that at any time when the MAA elections have been held, the identical acrimony was witnessed and referred to as for placing an finish to it.

Actor-politician Pawan Kalyan was one of many first to solid his votes. Speaking to reporters, the Jana Sena president declined to call the panel he votes for saying this might quantity to influencing voters. He stated MAA elections would haven’t any bearing on the friendship between his brother Chiranjeevi and Mohan Babu. Pawan stated the movie trade is not going to break up because of MAA polls.

Chiranjeevi’s brother Naga Babu instructed reporters that he solid his vote for the Prakash Raj panel. Main actor Balakrishna stated after casting his vote that Prakash Raj and Vishnu have been like brothers to him. The actor and politician, who had earlier declared his help for Vishnu, stated he voted for many who would work higher.

Senior actress and former MP Jaya Prada additionally solid her vote. Mohan Babu stated she flew in from Delhi at his request to take part within the voting.

Genelia D’Souza, who had been staying away from Telugu movies following her marriage to Bollywood actor Ritesh Deshmukh, additionally got here to Hyderabad to solid her vote. She stated MAA will quickly have a “tremendous president”.

There was gentle rigidity on the polling sales space when the Vishnu panel members alleged that the other aspect was campaigning contained in the sales space. Shiva Balaji tried to cease a member of the Prakash Raj panel who was allegedly freely giving dummy ballots to voters. There was a heated argument between the 2 teams. Temperatures got here down after police intervention.

Mohan Babu additionally took exception to the Prakash Raj panel campaigning contained in the sales space. He urged voters to go away in 5 minutes after exercising their franchise. There was additionally a heated argument between Shiva Balaji and Hema.