Overview
- Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, Telangana’s cinematography minister, warned that Pawan Kalyan’s movies will not release in the state unless he offers an unconditional apology.
- He added that, if Kalyan apologises, screenings might be allowed for only a couple of days in the Nizam region.
- Congress ministers and other Telangana leaders, including Ponnam Prabhakar, Mahesh Kumar Goud, J. Anirudh Reddy and BRS MLA G. Jagadish Reddy, demanded that Kalyan withdraw his remarks and apologise.
- Jana Sena said the comments were being twisted and asked that his remarks not be distorted given the cordial relations between the two states.
- Experts attributed the coconut tree losses in Konaseema to seawater intrusion and drainage failures rather than superstition, while some local reporting cast the political focus on the row as a diversion from other controversies.