Chennai: Kamal Haasan’s fledgeling political celebration Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) is witnessing mass resignation of its high rung leaders after the celebration confronted a extreme rout of their maiden Assembly Elections in Tamil Nadu. The developments got here to mild after the celebration’s Central Governing Body (CGB) met at their headquarters in Chennai on Thursday (May 6) night.
ZEE News has learnt that Haasan had requested members of his celebration’s Central Governing Body (CGB) to tender their resignations from the respective posts they held (not from the first membership of the celebration), following which they obliged. This was ostensibly performed as a result of Haasan needed to do some “soul-searching and make fundamental changes in the party”, after drawing a clean.
“He demanded the resignation and we complied. I think it is because of the defeat and it is the President’s decision to look into who is required in the Central governing body. He lost by a small margin, but he did win hearts. It was a wrong constituency selection, had he contested anywhere in Chennai he would’ve won hands down” CK Kumaravel a high entrepreneur, who was requested to resign from the CGB instructed ZEE News.
Shortly after the assembly ended, MNM issued an announcement saying that CGB members Dr R. Mahendran, Muruganandam, Maurya, Thangavelu, Umadevi, CK Kumaravel, Sekar and Suresh Iyer have resigned. However, it additionally added that Kamal Haasan would determine on accepting these resignations and the additional plan of action.
Among those that resigned is Dr R. Mahendran, who served because the Vice President of the fledgeling celebration. However, in contrast to others, Mahendran had tendered his resignation (each from the VP post and first membership) to Kamal Haasan. He additionally shared with the media, an 8-page letter he had written to Kamal Haasan, outlining the explanations for his determination to stop and a single-page letter written to the celebration cadre.
Mahendran’s letter to Haasan mentioned that the actor had a non-democratic type of operating the celebration and that Kamal had favored some advisors and consultants whose providers didn’t profit the celebration in any method. It alleges that Kamal’s celebration was being pushed to perform like a fan membership and that the veteran actor was being “managed and manipulated” by his advisors. “I had lost all hope for any semblance of change in how the party is being run over the past one and a half years” Mahendran had written, urging Kamal Haasan to look again at their journey.
“There was no discussion with the Governing body or EC after the poll rout, neither was any planned, but today Haasan comes and says that “this is my party”, when the opposite members pleaded that this was our celebration. Stating the so known as re-structuring of the celebration, he’s requested the others to resign, whereas I had ready myself to go away the celebration, during the last one month. It’s reactionary, that is the type of functioning I knew that he’ll proceed to have.” Mahendran instructed Zee Media. Mahendran believes that if his exit adjustments the celebration, then it’s his largest service to the celebration.
Some time after Mahendran’s assertion was launched, Kamal Haasan shared an announcement accusing Mahendran of being a betrayer, who didn’t let others develop and as somebody who was making an attempt to pin the blame of his incompetence and dishonesty on others. “There was a collective voice asking for the ouster of betrayers. The first among the list of betrayers was Dr.R. Mahendran” the assertion mentioned, with out elaborating any additional.
