hyderabad actors in the telugu film industry are spitting fire and attacking one another venomously its election time in the movie artistes association maa and for the first time ever it appears that there will be five panels in fray to capture power shocked out of their wits with elections for just over a 700member association splitting artistes into several groups senior actors are frantically trying to salvage the image of maa by working towards getting a body elected unanimouslythe fire and fury is firstly about elections not being held though the term of present body had expired in march this year senior actor prakash raj fired the first salvo demanding that elections be held while practically parading his panelnaresh who is current president of the association responded saying the elections were delayed as the elected body was busy during the covid19 situation helping families an artiste from naresh camp went on to bring in the local versus nonlocal issue to the fore saying that prakash raj was not a telugu things took a dramatic turn when actor manchu vishnu offered to construct a building for the association from his personal funds and contributions from his family nandamuri balakrishna said he too would contribute in all the chaos that had been prevailing actress hema shot off a letter to several members of maa and also circulated an audio message in which she raised the issue of usage of funds no funds have been raised but whatever the association has is being used up for various programmes hema said and for this she incurred the wrath of the disciplinary committee which sought an explanation from her for her utterancesthe funds are properly being used for covid19 relief and for paying members mediclaim insurance jeevitha rajasekhar who is secretary of the present body said trying to set the record straightthe general body meeting of maa was held on august 22 and the elections will be held on october 10