Hyderabad: Eight newly elected executive committee members and three office bearers of MAA resigned their posts on Tuesday. The resigned 11 MAA elected members belongs to Prakash Raj panel.

The MAA election results announced on Monday evening, the elected candidates of Prakash Raj group are resigned within a day, after electing the posts. They expressed their discernment over the elected president Manchu Vishnu Panel.

Speaking to the media persons, the Prakash Raj panel members said that they do not want to be a hurdle in the decisions of the new MAA president, actor-producer Manchu Vishnu, and his panel over the next two years when they will be in office, the dissenters parted ways with the association.

Newly-elected Executive Vice President Srikanth, Vice President Benarjee, Joint Secretary Uttej and eight executive members announced their resignations at a news conference in the presence of Prakash Raj, Jeevitha Rajasekhar and others.

Vishnu has made big promises, so we felt our presence may be cited as an excuse for not fulfilling them. Hence, we have decided that we should not be a hurdle in the way of their decisions,” Prakash Raj said. He added that they had reached this decision after detailed discussions and deliberations over whether they could work in this kind of an atmosphere in the MAA.

It is a dignified decision, Prakash Raj said. Please run the show, but if there are shortcomings, we will question you on behalf of all those who voted for us, he added. Referring to Vishnu’s statement that he would not accept the resignation, Prakash Raj said he was ready to take back his decision if Vishnu assured him that he would not amend the bye-laws of MAA to prevent non-Telugu members from contesting the elections in future.

Prakash Raj alleged that there was “roudyism” in the election and there was cross-voting and irregularities in counting. He also said outsiders from various places were brought in on the polling day and seniors such as Benarjee were manhandled and abused. He pointed out that on the first day counting was taken up for 4-5 hours and it was said that the results would be declared the next morning, but it took the entire day for that to happen.

Benarjee broke down while narrating how was he was humiliated during the polling. He said Vishnu’s father and veteran actor, Mohan Babu, used abusive words against him and even tried to manhandle him. He said when Mohan Babu was shouting at Tanish, he came to the latter’s rescue, making Mohan Babu lose his temper and use abusive language.