{"id":307405,"date":"2018-12-22T10:33:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T10:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307405"},"modified":"2018-12-22T10:33:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T10:33:24","slug":"will-definitely-contest-in-2019-lok-sabha-elections-says-kamal-hassan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/will-definitely-contest-in-2019-lok-sabha-elections-says-kamal-hassan\/","title":{"rendered":"Will definitely contest in 2019 Lok Sabha elections, says Kamal Hassan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307406 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/kamal-hassan.-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/kamal-hassan.-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/kamal-hassan..jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/kamal-hassan.-490x420.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) chief Kamal Haasan on Saturday said that he would \u2018definitely\u2019 contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI will definitely contest in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections,\u201d the actor-turned-politician told reporters in Chennai.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On being asked about\u00a0possibilities of forming an alliance with other parties, Haasan said that he\u00a0is open to join hands with like-minded parties but would not ally with any party that \u201ctries to change Tamil Nadu\u2019s DNA\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kamal Haasan has been touring Tamil Nadu as part of his efforts to strengthen his new party, has constantly declined to comment on possible alliances earlier creating suspense in the state regarding poll deal. When asked, if he would go alone or ally with other parties for 2019 elections and bypolls to 20 assembly constituencies, Hassan said, \u201cSuch things cannot be said now and it cannot be disclosed to the media. Some sections of media are imagining things.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) chief Kamal Haasan on Saturday said that he would \u2018definitely\u2019 contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. \u201cI will definitely contest in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections,\u201d the actor-turned-politician told reporters in Chennai. On being asked about\u00a0possibilities of forming an alliance with other parties, Haasan said that he\u00a0is open to join hands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[641,1345,10374],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307405"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307407,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307405\/revisions\/307407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}