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Kamal Haasan to adopt village
The initiative to adopt a village was part of his effort to challenge the status quo in the Tamil Nadu politics where political parties were not thinking out of the box
Updated : Jan 26, 2018, 05:55 AM IST
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Actor Kamal Haasan, who is set to begin his political journey on February 21, has revealed his plan to adopt a village and convert it into a model one with all infrastructure facilities including better schooling, access to drinking water and transport facilities.
The initiative to adopt a village was part of his effort to challenge the status quo in the Tamil Nadu politics where political parties were not thinking out of the box, Haasan wrote in his weekly column in a Tamil magazine.
On February 21, Hassan will launch his political party in his native Ramanathapuram district and also release his party's guiding principles. Naming his political tour starting on February 21 "Naalai Namadhey" (Tomorrow is ours), he said that if the people are reminded of him (late chief minister MG Ramachandran), nothing wrong in it as they were good memories. Naalai Namadhey was the title of the movie starring MGR.
Recalling various welfare activities undertaken by him and his fans association, he said that they decided to a village to develop it as a model one. He said that people were migrating to the cities from the villages in search of better facilities.
Taking a dig at the ruling AIADMK government's free laptop scheme, Hassan said that he would not accept the argument that one would get knowledge by getting a laptop. "One requires certain knowledge to even operate a laptop. It is only an instrument to gain knowledge," he said, adding that people should be taught the art of catching fish as that alone would ensure them a life of self-respect, a reference to job creation. If things can be changed single-handedly by him through his fans welfare association, and if the government which considers it all-powerful gets into the act and does better things than me, I will consider my job as done. There is no point tweeting (about issues). I have rained tweets, but what to do they don't reach them," Haasan said in an apparent reference to the government.
Listing out things to be done in the villages, Hassan said modern school education provided in the US and the UK schools should be made available in the villages.
What he said
- Hassan said modern school education provided in the US and the UK schools should be made available in the villages, so that people do not need to migrate to cities for better facilities.
