Congress MLC wants action against actor Srikanth Iyengar over remarks on Mahatma Gandhi

Telangana Congress MLC Balmoor Venkat met Movie Artists Association (MAA) president Vishnu Manchu connected Saturday and lodged a ceremonial ailment demanding enactment against histrion Srikanth Iyengar for making objectionable and indecent remarks astir Mahatma Gandhi connected societal media.

In his complaint, Mr. Venkat urged that Srikanth Iyengar’s MAA rank beryllium cancelled, stating that specified comments against the Father of the Nation were unacceptable and had profoundly wounded nationalist sentiment. He appealed to elder members of the Telugu movie manufacture to talk retired and condemn specified acts. Mr. Vishnu Manchu and MAA treasurer Shiva Balaji assured that the relation would instrumentality the contented seriously. “The substance volition beryllium discussed successful the MAA committee, and due enactment volition beryllium taken,” Shiva Balaji said.

Mr. Balmoor Venkat said that artistes transportation a societal work to uphold the values of information and non-violence that Mahatma Gandhi stood for, and that disrespectful remarks against nationalist icons indispensable not spell unpunished. On Saturday,a constabulary ailment was filed against the histrion by Mr. Balmoor.