MADURAI: MNM leader and actor Kamal Haasan on Wednesday asserted that a third front was a definite possibility for the ensuing assembly election in Tamil Nadu. “There is a good possibility of us heading a third front for the assembly poll,” the MNM leader said in Tirunelveli on Wednesday where he was campaigning as part of his southern region poll programme.
Kamal reiterated that he was open to working with actor Rajinikanth for the election. “We will discuss and decide as to who would be the chief minister candidate (of the front) later,” he said. “But I will not join hands with lazy people, who only receive their salaries without working,’’ he said. Seven and a half crore people are being cheated by 234 people (referring to legislators in the 234-strong TN assembly). On whether he would accept an invitation to join the DMK-led front, the actor said it was too early to discuss it. Asked how he could join hands with Rajinikanth, whose stated ideology was “spiritual politics”, Kamal said he had nothing against people following their faiths. “We don’t decide the eligibility of a person to join our party by looking at the forehead. We look at their eyes for their integrity,” said Kamal.
On whether Rajinikanth and he were brought into politics as part of a BJP plan to splinter the votes, Kamal said nobody could direct or push him to do something that he did not wish to. “Even the films in which I acted were decided by me. Nobody can make me do anything,” he said. “We want to provide a government like never before-…with a fishermen representative too in our cabinet,” he said. Making Tamil Nadu a trillion-dollar economy was MNM’s goal and it would be achieved through honesty and transparency, said Kamal Haasan, campaigning in Tirunelveli.