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Balakrishna can't ignore Viceroy episode!

Balakrishna can't ignore Viceroy episode!

Senior actor and Telugu Desam Party MP Nandamuri Balakrishna, who has announced that he would do a biopic on his father – legendary actor and former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh N T Rama Rao, cannot ignore the infamous Viceroy Hotel episode which ultimately led to the death of the TDP patriarch.

This was asserted by none other than Balakrishna’s own sister and former union minister Daggubati Purandeshwari, who is presently a senior leader in BJP.

In an interview to a television channel, Purandeshwari said if at all Balakrishna makes the film on NTR, he cannot ignore the infamous Viceroy Hotel episode, which showed how present TDP president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu masterminded the dethroning of NTR and usurping power.

“Balakrishna knows every development of the coup against NTR. If he is sincere, he will definitely incorporate this episode in the film, without which the biopic will be incomplete,” she said.

Purandeshwari defended his father’s decision to marry Lakshmi Parvathi.

“I understand his decision to have a support at the fag end of his life. We have to respect it,” she said.

Stating that she had no personal enmity with Chandrababu Naidu, the former union minister said she only differed with him politically.

On her letter to BJP national president Amit Shah on giving cabinet berths to defectors from YSR Congress party, Purandeshwari said she was only pained at the way defections had taken place in Telugu states. “I leave it to their wisdom,” she said.

She said she had not received any invitation from Naidu for the swearing-in ceremony of Lokesh as a minister. “My blessings are always with him,” she said.

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