Andhra Pradesh ministers Botsa Satyanarayana and Anil Kumar Yadav slammed the comments made by actor-turned-politician and the founder president of Jana Sena Party (JSP) Pawan Kalyan against the state government over the sale of movie tickets online.
They said that the comments made by Kalyan were far from the truth, and that the state government had introduced the method to streamline the process of collection of GST on tickets.
They also asked how the state government could keep mum when the theatre managements were increasing the ticket prices in an unprecedented manner.
They claimed that it was the distributors of the movies that had urged the state government to introduce the online ticket mechanism.
They asked Kalyan to bring any issue to the notice of the state government instead of making baseless allegations against it.
They also said that the veterans of the film industry like Chiranjeevi and Mohan Babu could approach them if they had any problems with the online ticket mechanism.