Telangana Endowment and Forest Minister Konda Surekha withdrew her statement on Nagarjuna's son Naga Chaitanya and actress Samantha's divorce. Months after the family filed defamation suit against her, the minister took to X and wrote, "I'd no intention of hurting or defaming Akkineni Nagarjuna Garu or his family. I regret any unintended impression given in my statement...and withdraw the same."