Chennai, Sep 22 (UNI) Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan, who was on Saturday, re-elected as the President of the Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) for a second term, observed that the Centre’s One Nation One Election (ONOE) proposal was dangerous to the Nation.
It is flawed and dangerous to the country, he said addressing his party’s second General Council meeting after being unanimously re-elected as the Party Chief for the second term.
“The ‘One Nation, One Election’ concept is dangerous for India as scars still remain in some Nations in Europe which tried to hold such simultaneous polls in the past”, Kamal, whose party is a key ally of the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu, said.
Kamal had entered into an alliance with the DMK for the recent Lok Sabha polls but decided against contesting it and was promised a Rajya Sabha seat next year as part of the seat sharing agreement.
The GC meeting adopted resolutions against the ONOE and also on urging the Centre to hold a nationwide caste census; implement the recommendations of the M.S.Swaminathan committee on MSP for farmers and undertake the delimitation exercise after broad consensus.
Resolutions condemning the recurring and frequent attacks and arrests on TN fishermen by the the Sri Lankan Navy at the Palk Bay in high seas, strengthening the grama sabhas, were also adopted at the meeting.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister and DMK President M.K. Stalin congratulated Mr. Kamal on his re-election as the MNM president.
In a post on X, he said “I congratulate my friend Kamal Haasan, who has faith in equality, on his election as the party president. Let his political journey reach new destinations”.
