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MAA has been a prestigious body that represents the actors of Telugu cinema. MAA which is over two decades old landed into controversies from the past two years. There have been differences between the members and they are widely exposed. This year Prakash Raj's panel and Manchu Vishnu's panel competed in the polls and Vishnu got elected as the new President of MAA. Prakash Raj resigned for the membership of MAA after he was defeated. He arranged a press conference today and the entire panel members participated in the interaction.

Prakash Raj announced that all the 11-panel members who won in the polls will resign for their positions and they wanted Manchu Vishnu to work efficiently with his panel in the coming days. "We are not here to fight or deviate the team of Manchu Vishnu. I will check the report card of Vishnu every month. I want them to work for MAA. I will question from the side of the actors as they have voted us with trust. I will also take my resignation back for the membership of MAA only after the laws gets changed. There should be non-locals contesting in MAA Elections in the future" told Prakash Raj. Srikanth, Banerjee, Uttej, Tanish, Sameer and Prabhakar turned emotional and expressed their views after the MAA Elections