Overview
- Desai held a Monday press conference at the Press Club of Hyderabad on street dog bites with actor Rashmi Gautam and director Sashi Kiran Tikka.
- Video from the event showed her shouting after an older attendee allegedly tried to approach the stage before security intervened.
- She later posted on Instagram that she did not yell at journalists and said a 55-year-old man was coming toward her to hit her.
- In the same video, she decried trolling that invoked ex-husband Pawan Kalyan and targeted her children, and she disabled comments to curb abuse.
- During her remarks, she questioned selective public outrage, contrasting dog-bite focus with dengue deaths, road safety lapses, and violent crime.