Telangana Minister Konda Surekha alleged that Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao (KTR) might be responsible for his father, K Chandrashekar Rao’s (KCR) disappearance from the public eye. Speaking in Gajwel on Thursday, she further urged members of her party, the Congress, to file a missing persons case for K Chandrashekar Rao, as reported by NDTV. 

The comment grabbed eyeballs as they followed her recent controversial comments linking KTR to actors Naga Chaitanya and Samantha Ruth Prabhu’s divorce.

Reacting to the latest attack by Surekha, BRS leader Sravan Dasoju said, “After Revanth Reddy became the TPCC president and subsequently became the chief minister of Telangana, the politics and the political discourse in Telangana has reached a very low level; derogatory, defamatory, insulting, humiliating abuses are being hurled at the opposition, particularly KCR and KTR and the other family members.” 

Konda Surekha on Naga Chaitanya and Samantha Ruth Prabhu’s divorce

On Wednesday, linking KTR to Naga Chaitanya and Samantha Ruth Prabhu’s divorce, Konda Surekha stirred the hornet’s nest and said, “It is KT Rama Rao because of whom Samantha’s divorce happened. He was a minister at the time and used to tap the phones of the actresses to find out their weaknesses and use them for blackmail. He used to make them drug addicts; everyone knows this, everybody is aware.”

Several senior actors, including Chiranjeevi and Junior NTR, protested against the comment. Meanwhile, Samantha posted a message on her Instagram, asking the minister to leave her out of her political battles.

“My divorce is a personal matter, and I request that you refrain from speculating about it… To clarify: my divorce was mutual consent and amicable, with no political conspiracy involved,” the actor said.

Following widespread criticism, Konda Surekha later clarified that her remarks were meant to question KT Rama Rao for “belittling women” and not to hurt Samantha Prabhu’s sentiments. In a post on X, she said she would “unconditionally” retract her comments if Samantha or her fans were offended by them.

Meanwhile, K T Rama Rao sent a defamation notice to Konda Surekha Thursday for her “baseless and defamatory” remarks and asked her to offer an unconditional public apology.