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'Some Forces Will Unite, Some Forces Will Break': Kamal Haasan Cryptic on Third Front Possibility
Makkal Needhi Maiam chief Kamal Haasan hinted at the realignment of political alliances ahead of 2021 assembly elections while not ruling out a possible tie-up with actor Rajinikanth, who is set to float his party soon.
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The Makkal Needhi Maiam founder hinted on the possibility of forming a third front for the upcoming Tamil Nadu Assembly polls. With the elections due in April-May next year, actor-turned-politician and MNM Founder Kamal Haasan had kick-started his electoral campaign from the 'Temple City'- Madurai. Kamal Haasan had earlier hinted on forming an alliance as a third front.
He re-iterated the same, while talking to the reporters at the Madurai airport on his arrival, today. He said that "Some forces will unite, some forces will break", hinting on there could be splits and political realignment ahead of the elections.
While questioning on whether his party would form a third front, he said anything was possible in politics and it was also possible (third front). On choosing Madurai to kick-start his poll campaign, he recalled the launch of MNM here a couple of years ago and said the party cadres wanted to launch the Assembly election campaign also from this city.
Kamal, who had taken a lead over other parties in launching his poll campaign, would cover the entire southern districts in the next few days. The Tamil leader's attack on the project came hours before the launch of the first phase of his poll campaign from Madurai, the city where his party was launched over two years ago.
Also, Kamal Haasan made a cryptic statement on the alliance with Rajinikanth. He said the alliance between the 'MNM party and Spiritual party' will have to wait for a while, but the third front under MNM leadership can be expected.
Meanwhile, a few months ago, Vijay Prabhakaran, son of DMDK's founder Vijayakanth had also hinted on the third front alliance for the upcoming elections.
In his brief address, Haasan assured the gathering of designating Madurai as the second capital of Tamil Nadu if his party was voted to power. In a question and answer session that followed, he expressed confidence of eliminating corruption with the support of people.
His political entry was to serve the public who stood behind him ever since he joined the world of cinema when he was still a child. Replying to a question, Haasan said enforcing prohibition in Tamil Nadu was not feasible.
His stand was that the government should not be involved in liquor business, the way it focused on key sectors like education and health. Hence, if MNM was voted to power, liquor vends would be privatised and the government shall confine itself to priority areas including education and job creation, he said.
History showed that the idea of complete prohibition had led to illicit liquor, he said. "We should not sow seeds for illicit liquor by claiming to do away with alcoholic beverages." On unemployment, he said his party stood for developing entrepreneurial skills of young men and women to make them entrepreneurs.
They should pursue a variety of educational choices rather than choosing only engineering or medicine and ending up being mere job seekers, he said. Haasan, who earlier arrived here from Chennai to embark on the first phase of campaign, was accorded a grand reception by his party workers.
Standing through the sunroof of his car, he greeted the people and joined his arms to symbolise the logo of his party that denoted togetherness. Haasan's party contested its first elections in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls fielding candidates in 38 constituencies in the state, but failed to win any seat, polling only 3.77 per cent votes.
(with inputs from UNI,PTI)
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