{"id":285357,"date":"2018-02-22T11:59:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T06:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=285357"},"modified":"2018-02-22T11:59:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T06:29:23","slug":"kamal-hassan-finally-floats-his-political-party-makkal-needhi-maiam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/kamal-hassan-finally-floats-his-political-party-makkal-needhi-maiam\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamal Hassan finally floats his political party &#039;Makkal Needhi Maiam&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kamal-haasan.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-285343 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kamal-haasan-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"kamal-haasan\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" data-id=\"285343\" \/><\/a>Kamal Haasan finally joined the league of politicians by floating Makkal Needhi Maiam (People\u2019s Justice Party) at Othakadai in Madurai on February 20.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI\u2019m 63 right now. I am not here to rule for another 40 years and the party \u2018Makkal Needhi Maiam\u2019 will stand strong for another four generations. I am here only to sow the seeds,\u201d the actor-turned-politician said in his first political public speech.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his sparkling speech, Kamal Haasan said that they (his fans) had been silent for the past 37 years and were serving the welfare of the needy. \u201cThey are rising now as they could not tolerate the injustice being done to the people by the past and present governments,\u201d the actor said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While explaining the policies of his party, Kamal said that he would take the welfare policies already implemented by the chief ministers of other States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Talking about the current situation of education in the state, he said his main focus would be to impart quality education to all the children of the state.\u00a0 \u201cNow, the schools are being made private buildings and even the schoolchildren have access to buying liquor,\u201d he\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apart from education Kamal also talked about\u00a0caste-based discrimination and politics,\u00a0freebies given by the previous government,\u00a0vote-for-cash and\u00a0Cauvery river issue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cPeople should never let the lamp go off due to the wind called corruption,\u201d Kamal said while urging people to not to see him as a star anymore as he wanted to be seen as a lamp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamal Haasan finally joined the league of politicians by floating Makkal Needhi Maiam (People\u2019s Justice Party) at Othakadai in Madurai on February 20. \u201cI\u2019m 63 right now. I am not here to rule for another 40 years and the party \u2018Makkal Needhi Maiam\u2019 will stand strong for another four generations. I am here only to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":285360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39],"tags":[653,641,654,655,656,657],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}