Thirumavalavan urges Stalin to ensure Kamal Haasan’s party contests Assembly elections

A day after Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) founder and Rajya Sabha MP Kamal Haasan announced that his event would no longer contest the upcoming Meeting election, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) founder and Chidambaram MP Thol. Thirumavalavan, on Wednesday, appealed to Chief Minister M.K. Stalin to plan shut the alliance’s slogan “We will have the flexibility to Safe Collectively” by making certain that MNM can fight the election beneath its possess “Battery Torch” symbol.

In an announcement, Mr. Thirumavalavan said that MNM no longer taking an active function within the election and supporting the alliance from originate air will affect the “goodwill” of the alliance. “In the present seat-sharing negotiations, the venture in allocating seats to Makkal Needhi Maiam has pushed that event to a field where it has made up our minds to no longer contest this election. On the the same time, it has announced that this will work for the victory of the secular alliance. While we rob pleasure in this as a civilised formulation by that event and its leader, there would possibly possibly well be say that it could possibly additionally affect the goodwill of our alliance,” he said.

Mr. Thirumavalavan added that parties in alliance would possibly possibly additionally mute no longer be compelled to “contest beneath the label” of one other event after they like to contest of their very possess symbol. “This could hinder their independent political functioning. The alliance leadership refraining from interfering in such freedom of allied parties would be a designate of admire for democracy. On this severe say, in this righteous fight to defeat communal, divisive, and lovely-flit forces, Makkal Needhi Maiam too must join fingers with us and contest the election as a participant take care of us. That is, Mr. Kamal Haasan too must, beneath your leadership, wield the ideological sword to defeat ideological adversaries,” he said.

Mr. Thirumavalavan said that the strength of a event “would no longer entirely correlate to its vote monetary institution” but also on factors such as “ideological strength, public goodwill in the direction of the event, and goodwill in the direction of its leadership” also add to a event’s strength. “Let it be regarded as as his magnanimity that Makkal Needhi Maiam has made up our minds to no longer contest this election. Alternatively, it could possibly be a designate of your greatness to embody Mr. Kamal Haasan — who possesses ideological strength in firmly opposing communalism, a confirmed vote monetary institution strength of spherical four percent, and nice affect and goodwill within Tamil society — and never let him remain originate air,” he said.