Rajinikanth, who recently announced his political entry and preached about bringing ‘spiritual politics’ to the State, is quite serious about his new venture. According to The Times of India, the actor has several teams helping him with data and research in order to filter out candidates who could be a potential threat.
He has reportedly brought in teams to scout the state for specific data and solutions, along with a technology team that will set things in motion by adopting the data analytics approach.
Considering the actor’s massive fan base, a sizable funding is expected to come from the US, where several Indians (and fans of the actor) are backing his venture into politics.
“As and when the political party is launched, it will be one of the strongest technology backed initiative to hit the political theatre in the state, with complete data support for every constituency and segments within. That is the only way the team thinks Rajinikanth could take on the might of the two Dravidian parties. Success or failure comes next,” a source tells ToI.
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Rajinikanth has also been wary of people wanting to join his party, so he has a proper filtering process in place for the right candidate. It is reported that he’d adopted a pretty similar method while organising his fan meet.
The 67-year-old actor announced his political entry on December 31 amidst fans and media persons at his Sri Raghavendra Kalyana Mandapam. He will be starting his own political party, and will contest in all 234 constituencies in Tamil Nadu during the next assembly elections. Declaring that democracy is dead in the state and that a few political events that had happened in Tamil Nadu have shamed its citizens, the actor emphasised that if he didn’t enter the political arena now, it would make him feel very guilty.