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Actor’s car stoned, daughters injured

Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD: Film actor Rajasekhar escaped an attack allegedly by superstar Chiranjeevi’s fans who stoned his car and broke the windows when he was returning home here early on Monday.

The attack took place when the actor was returning from a trip to Bhimavaram after disembarking from a train at Secunderabad. Dr. Rajasekhar who was driving a car was accompanied by wife Jeevitha and daughters Shivani and Shivanthika. The girls sustained injuries. The attack was sparked off by Dr. Rajasekhar’s comments to a TV channel that he would not like to join the megastar’s proposed political party because the latter was ‘inexperienced’. Within hours of the attack, Chiranjeevi reached the actor’s residence in Jubilee Hills and waited for over an hour as Dr. Rajasekhar was at a live, phone-in programme organised by another TV channel in this connection. As soon as the actor returned home, the two actors were closeted for about half-an-hour, after which the two, with Ms. Jeevitha in tow, spoke to presspersons.

Chiranjeevi apologised to Dr. Rajasekhar for the attack. “In a democracy everybody has a right to speak. What Dr. Rajasekhar said was true as I am inexperienced in politics. ,” he said in a message to his fans.

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