Former bureaucrat Santhosh Babu quits Makkal Needhi Maiam
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Maduravoyal candidate and activist Padma Priya has also left the party
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Maduravoyal candidate and activist Padma Priya has also left the party
Actor-politician Kamal Haasan’s Makkal Needhi Maiam faced two more resignations on Thursday - former IAS officer Santhosh Babu and the Maduravoyal candidate, activist Padma Priya.
Mr. Babu’s resignation is the second high-profile exit from the party in the past week. He made the announcement of his quitting the party in a tweet, citing personal reasons. Earlier, party vice president and senior leader R. Mahendran had left the party.
Actor-politician Kamal Haasan with his elder daughter, Shruti.
Kamal Haasan s elder daughter, Shruti Haasan, shared a message for her father on Instagram after the veteran movie actor and Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) founder was defeated in Tamil Nadu s Coimbatore (South) constituency at the end of counting of votes polled in the recently-held Assembly election. Late last night, Shruti Haasan took to Instagram Stories to share a picture of her father Kamal Haasan, who formed his own political party in 2018.
The Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu were held on April 6. The counting of votes began at 8 am yesterday. Although Kamal Haasan, 66, was leading during the early hours of vote counting, BJP s Vanathi Srinivasan overtook him at around 6 pm and ultimately won the election by around 1,500 votes.
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Tamil Nadu: DMK copied our manifesto, claims Kamal Haasan
If they want to copy for us, we have more such plans. Whether they acknowledge copying from us or not, they should do good things, says the actor-turned-politician
Chennai: Actor-politician Kamal Haasan on Monday alleged that the DMK has copied his manifesto for the upcoming Assembly elections.
A day after DMK president MK Stalin announced that, if elected, his party would give Rs 1,000 per month to every homemaker in Tamil Nadu, Haasan alleged that his Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) had earlier promised income to housewives and the DMK had copied this.
India News: CHENNAI: Actor-politician Kamal Haasan on Sunday said there was a possibility of a third front being formed under his leadership for the coming assemb.