Bigg Boss Telugu OTT, March 24, highlights: Akhil quitting the captaincy contender task and other major events at a glance

As per the morning task ‘Who’s the Nayak?’, the housemates had to name their ‘Nayak (leader)’ and ‘Khalnayak (villain)’ in the BB house.
During the task, Akhil, Sarayu and Hamida had an argument. Sarayu later mentioned both Mahesh and Hamida as her Nayaks in the house.
As per the next task, the captaincy contenders had to accomplish a series of challenges together. In case they fail in any challenge, the contenders need to unanimously decide the eliminator.
The first challenge was about Ashu making Ariyana cry with the help of Sarayu and Tejaswi.
Leaving the contenders in shock, Bigg Boss announced that they have failed in completing the challenge. Akhil volunteered to quit the captaincy contender task while Ariyana cried as she missed her friend. Nataraj and Tejaswi had a heated argument when the latter said they have more challenges and Anil in the last round to compete. Nataraj asked Tejaswi to stop ‘influencing’ others. Tejaswi got offended and they had a difference of opinion.
According to the next challenge, both Tejaswi and Ashu planned to get a peck from Anil. He cut a few deals in exchange for a kiss on the hand.
The next task was about throwing the clothes of either Sravanthi or Mithraw into the pool in the next 45minutes. The contenders threw Mithraw’s clothes into the pool.
Ajay, Mahesh, Sarayu, Nataraj, Ashu, Tejaswi, Anil and Shiva were the captaincy contenders.