Kamal Haasan, meeting his fans at his Alwarpet residence today, said that he will be announcing the name of his party on February 21 at Ramanathapuram, his birth place.
According to a News7 scroll, the actor had also said that rumours of a general body meeting to be held in Madurai on February 23 are untrue, and that a decision regarding the meeting will be made on February 22 or 23. “Our journey will be towards the people,” he said, “They are the heroes of my party, not I. Yaadhum oore, yaavarum kelir [All are our kin].”
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Earlier, in his column for Vikatan, the actor had written: “I consider my journey towards working for the society a duty, and not an opportunity. The first step towards this is to meet people. This is not to mobilise support or public opinion, nor is it to glamorise my party – it’s merely my learning. My kalvi,” he said. Declaring that he will start his journey from late President APJ Abdul Kalam’s house in Rameswaram, Kamal added, “You may ask what I’m going to do there; Kalam wanted to leave behind a good state, a flourishing Tamil Nadu, that’s my intention as well. I’m not here just to criticise. I’m here to get down and work.”
The actor also impressed upon the need to share the Tamils’ Dravidian identity with the rest of South India.
“Some hate Dravidian ideology, others swear by it. I say, both can be criticised. Dravidam isn’t something that belongs just to Tamil Nadu, but belongs to the whole country. South India, especially, must unite under a Dravidian identity. It must be celebrated all over the South. That’s how we can be heard in Delhi,” he wrote.