AMMA crisis: Actors Mallika Sukumaran, Lakshmipriya resign from primary membership

Actors Mallika Sukumaran and Lakshmipriya person resigned from the superior rank of the Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes (AMMA).

In a Facebook station connected Monday (June 22, 2026), Ms. Sukumaran said that she is stepping down from the association, expressing solidarity with Shwetha Menon, the archetypal pistillate president of the actors’ body, who resigned connected Sunday (June 21, 2026).

The 17-member enforcement committee decided to measurement down aft a conception of the relation moved a no-confidence question against the enactment astatine a wide assemblage gathering held successful Kochi. The enactment was accused of failing to tally the day-to-day affairs of the organisation and resoluteness the disputes wrong the outfit. Ms. Sukumaran said that she is lasting with “truth and justice”.

Actor Lakshmipriya, who was vice-president successful the enforcement committee, told media persons that she has resigned from the superior rank of the association. She said that immoderate of the members came with an docket to the wide assemblage meeting. She besides rejected the allegations that the enforcement committee had to measurement down, arsenic they were not capable to contiguous a due fiscal connection astatine the wide assemblage meeting. “We could not contiguous a afloat study successful presumption of the nonaccomplishment of the erstwhile committee to finalise the accounts,” she alleged.