Actor-politician Kamal Haasan today lost another top leader after his party's abysmal performance in the Tamil Nadu election. CK Kumaravel, in his parting shot to his star party boss, said: "No hero worship."
DMK is ahead on 117 seats, while alliance partner Congress is leading on 13 assembly seats. Ruling AIADMK is leading on 84 seats and its alliance partner BJP has been able to lead on four assembly seats
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E Sreedharan had joined the BJP recently. Metroman E Sreedharan will be Bharatiya Janata Party s chief ministerial candidate in the upcoming assembly elections in Kerala, Union Minister V Muraleedharan said in a tweet on Thursday. Sreedharan had recently joined the saffron party. BJP will fight Kerala polls with E Sreedharan Ji as its Chief Ministerial Candidate. We will defeat both @CPIMKerala and @INCKerala to provide a corruption-free, development-oriented Governance for the people of Kerala, Muraleedharan said. BJP under the able leadership of PM Shri Narendra Modi Ji will strive to take care of the needs of the People of Kerala. The New Kerala under E Sreedharan Ji will pave the way for an efficient & effective Govt in the state, the Minister of State for External Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs added.
Rajinikaanth, Kamal Haasan Popular Film Stars, But Flops In Politics : Mani Shankar Aiyar
Since the two have never used cinema for political messaging, they do not directly attract public opinion to their point of view, the Congress leader claims.
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Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar took a swipe at cinema icons Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan, claiming that their forays into politics prove to be underwhelming and have made a marginal difference.
Aiyar asserts that superstar Rajinikanth s decision to not enter electoral politics ahead of Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections this year will not make a tinker s difference.
Kamal Haasan hits campaign trail: My alliance is with people, says actor-politician
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Kamal Haasan said the DMK and AIADMK are looters. He said he is not against the Dravidian ideology and is rather drawing goodness from each ideology for people s welfare.
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UPDATED: January 9, 2021 15:18 IST
For his campaign trail, Kamal Haasan was dressed in a T-shirt with a denim jacket and coolers. Not what you d typically expect a politician in Tamil Nadu to wear. (Photo: IndiaToday)
It s a sunny day in Annasagaram village in Tamil Nadu s Dharmapuri. It s around 11.30 am and a crowd starts to form around a small house. The founder of Makkal Needhi Maiyam (MNM), Kamal Haasan is going to visit Sivagamani Ammal, who was part of Netaji Subash Chandra Bose s army. Packed in narrow streets, the excitement in the crowd is palpable. An old man tells his neighbour that he loved Kamal Haasan ever since he w