Kamal Haasan To Make Parliament Debut As DMK Announces Support For Rajya Sabha Bid

Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan is ready to make his parliamentary debut, marking an important second in his political adventure. The MK Stalin-led DMK executive in Tamil Nadu has introduced his title as probably the most 4 applicants for the Rajya Sabha elections scheduled for June 19.

Biennial elections might be held for 8 vacant Rajya Sabha seats, together with six in Tamil Nadu and two in Assam. Elections for the six Rajya Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu are being held because the time period of Anbumani Ramadoss (Pattali Makkal Katchi), N. Chandrasekaran (AIADMK), M. Shanmugam (DMK), P. Wilson (DMK), M. Mohammed Abdullah (DMK) and Vaiko (MDMK) is finishing on July 24.

Veteran Indian actor, filmmaker and flesh presser Kamal Haasan entered politics with the release of his birthday celebration, Makkal Nidhi Mayyam (MNM) on February 21, 2018, in Madurai, Tamil Nadu.

Apart from Kamal Haasan, the birthday celebration has additionally nominated senior recommend P. Wilson, former Union Minister S.R. Sivalingam, and famend Tamil poet and creator Rokaiya Malik as its applicants for the election.

P. Wilson is an incumbent Rajya Sabha MP and a number one attorney of the Supreme Court of India. He is widely recognized for representing the state in different high-profile prison battles and is a depended on prison voice inside the DMK management.

S.R. Sivalingam is a senior DMK chief and has in the past served as Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare. His nomination displays the birthday celebration’s effort to strike a steadiness between prison experience and administrative enjoy within the Upper House.

Rokeya Malik, often referred to as Kavignaar Salma, is a famend voice in fresh Tamil literature, recognized for her poems and novels that discover issues of gender, identification and social justice. She is a recipient of a number of literary awards; her inclusion within the listing displays the DMK’s dedication to cultural illustration and ladies’s empowerment.

Meanwhile, Haasan has sparked controversy together with his commentary that Kannada ‘was once born out of Tamil,’ triggering sharp complaint from politicians and the general public in Karnataka. The BJP and pro-Kannada teams have condemned his remark and are challenging an unconditional apology from him.