Normally in our Telugu movies, if a story has any political drama, it runs around MLA's, Ministers and it could go up to the Chief Minister level. A local goon can have direct communication with CM and sometimes a goon kills the CM to make another person the CM.
'Businessman' seems to be very advanced in that aspect as we have the Prime Minister in the story. Sources say that as per the story, Mahesh Babu is a gangster and in one scene some persons approach Mahesh Babu to negotiate with him to change the Prime Minister of India. Whether he does that or not is still unknown, but it definitely looks as though Mahesh Babu is much more powerful than any other gangster we have seen till now.