Actor Kamal Haasan took the social media by storm on Wednesday night, with a tweet. Responding to politicians who asked him for proof of corruption in the State, he urged people to send their stories of corruption to the ministers.
Riding the digital age to fight corruption, Mr. Haasan urged people to mail the ministers individually, detailing the troubles they went through because of this government’s corruption. And he told them to keep the missives polite.
A day after his cryptic tweets on Tuesday that led to speculation about his entry into politics, he posted a two-page statement on Twitter, virtually taking the fight to the State government’s home page after some of the State Ministers threatened him with ‘dire consequences’.
“When the whole world knows of the scale of corruption, only those really dull and corrupt will ask for evidence,” he said, claiming that he entered politics “wittingly or unwittingly” the day he raised his voice against imposition of Hindi.
The threat of those who hold on to power forgetting their responsibilities to the people even after taking bribes was at once laughable and condemnable, he said. “One Minister orders me to give evidence. When there are people to remind them of the bitter cry of corruption, who am I to stand in between as a priest?” he asked.
Further, Mr. Haasan said, his statement, was a request to his fans, members of his fans’ association and voters who did not take cash during the elections to send evidence of corruption to each minister detailing the troubles they went through during the AIADMK regime because of corruption.
He gave the link http:www.tn.gov.in/ministerslist for people to send their complaints of corruption.