The question was asked in the backdrop of speculations that Haasan’s party was involved in alliance talks with Chief Minister MK Stalin-led DMK for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.Earlier in September last year, DMK leader and Tamil Nadu minister Udhayanidhi Stalin hinted at his party allying with Hassan’s MNM ahead of the parliamentary polls.”The party leaders will decide on the alliance (with Kamal Haasan’s Makkal Needhi Maiam party) at the time of the elections,” Udhayanidhi Stalin had said.Also, Kamal Hassan had come in defence of Udhayanidhi Stalin during the ‘Sanatana Dharma’ controversy against the latter, saying that a young child (Udhayanidhi) was being targeted just because he spoke about Sanatana.Hassan was seen alongside Congress MP Rahul Gandhi embarking on his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra when it reached Tamil Nadu earlier in December 2022.Formed in 2018, Haasan’s MNM had faced the 2019 LS polls and the 2021 TN Assembly elections by itself, but failed to put up an impressive show.Later, MNM extended support to the ruling DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance candidate during the by-polls in Erode.(With inputs from PTI and ANI)
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