SOURCE :- SIASAT NEWS
Hyderabad: Jana Sena Party chief and Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan and his wife, Anna Konidala, have separated, bringing down the curtain on a marriage that lasted over 13 years.
The announcement came on Monday, November 9, through a brief joint statement in which the two described the decision as mutual. The separation, they said, was reached with understanding and respect for each other.
Though the marriage was over, they would continue as friends and remain committed to raising their two children together, the couple said. The children’s “well-being and happiness will always remain our shared priority,” the couple said.
They requested privacy as the family adjusts and thanked those who had supported them.
The statement was short on detail. It offered no reason for the split and said nothing on whether divorce proceedings had begun or how custody of the children would be arranged.
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The 55-year-old actor-politician first met Anna, a Russian national who had worked as a model and actor, in 2011, during the shooting of the Telugu film “Teen Maar.” They tied the knot on September 30, 2013. Their daughter is Polena Anjana Pawanova and their son is Mark Shankar Pawanovich.
Anna rarely made public appearances over the years, even as her husband’s career shifted from the big screen to state politics. She did, however, join him in celebrating the alliance’s 2024 Assembly poll win. He travelled to Singapore to attend her convocation at the National University of Singapore, where she completed a master’s degree.
In July, she wrote on Instagram asking the public to address her as Anna Konidala rather than Anna Lezhneva, explaining that she had taken her husband’s surname at the time of their 2013 marriage.
Talk of trouble in the marriage first surfaced in July 2023. Anna’s absence from a string of family events, among them the naming ceremony of Ram Charan’s daughter and Varun Tej’s engagement, had set off speculation. The Jana Sena Party moved quickly to deny the rumours. It shared a picture of the couple at a puja in their Hyderabad home, held after the first leg of his Varahi Yatra.
Pawan Kalyan’s third marriage to end
Pawan Kalyan has been married twice before. His first marriage, to Nandini in May 1997, ended in a divorce granted by the Visakhapatnam family court in 2008. His second, to actor Renu Desai, also ended in divorce. The two have two children.
He launched the Jana Sena Party in 2014. He took over as Andhra Pradesh’s Deputy Chief Minister in June 2024.
SOURCE : SIASAT
