He said the he is unable to understand the concept of ‘non local’. He argued that where did this concept of non local hidden when he did many charity programs and when he adopted 2 villages. He said that artists are universal and it is meaningless to attribute local and non local status to them. He also said that the MAA elections are not political party elections in response to the rumours that kcr and jagan is helping him. He said that he is solely participating for the seat with the motto of solving the problems of artists and workers who are associated with MAA.

I also have a section of panel members who questions me if any mistakes are made by me. It is not needed to politicize this MAA elections. Later he introduced his panel members who included senior actors like naga Babu, Sai Kumar, Jayasudha, Srikanth, Uttej, Sana, Anasuya, etc.