Indian actor Kamal Haasan to contest 2024 Lok Sabha election
Kamal Haasan
Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan has entered the 2024 Lok Sabha election race.Haasan, who is the president of the political party Makkal Needhi Maim (MNM), will be contestingthe upcoming general election, either from Coimbatore or Chennai.
Earlier this week, Haasan's party was allotted the symbol of ''battery torch''. According to reports, the actor's party MNM is likely tojoin hands with DMK and Congress andcontest as part of the INDIA bloc alliance.
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Haasan made his foray into the political world in 2018, and his party has been quite active in Coimbatore in recent years. In 2021, he contestedthe assembly election from Coimbatore South butlost to BJP's Vanathi Srinivasan by a slindermargin of 1,50 votes. In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, MNM candidate, Dr RMahendran fought from the Coimbatore Lok Sabha seat.
Sources have revealed that Coimbatore has been the first choice for Kamal, but he will not mind contesting in Lok Sabha elections from either ChennaiNorth, South or Central constituencies.
Coimbatore seat is currently represented by CPI-M, while all three Chennai seats are bagged byDMK. In 2021, Kamaljoined Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra.However, the actor later clarified that he did that for united India as he urged not to mistake his participation for leaning towards a "party".
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"...if I had this much sense of politics in the 1970s and there was Emergency, I would have walked the streets of Delhi. Please do not mistake this (my joining the Bharat Jodo Yatra) as my leaning towards a party; This was for a united India," Haasan said.
Haasan's MNM made its debut in the 2019 Lok Sabha election with the same battery torch symbol. His party then contested the 2021 Assembly elections.
(With agency inputs)
