Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma today (March 14) announced on Twitter that he would contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Andhra Pradesh. He said, he would contest from the Pithapuram constituency. His announcement came suddenly and soon after the Telugu Desam Party (TDP)-BJP-Jana Sena Party (JSP) alliance declared that Telugu film actor and JSP chief Pawan Kalyan would be fielded from the Pithapuram seat.
It may not be out of place to mention here that the filmmaker had earlier lashed out at TDP supremo Chandrababu Naidu, TDP leader Lokesh and actor-politician Pawan Kalyan for an alleged protest outside his office in Hyderabad with regard to his political Telugu film, Vyooham. Several Andhra Pradesh political leaders had demanded the expulsion of Varma from the state after his controversial film had been banned.