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Won't join Rajini if he's saffron: Kamal Haasan

Kamal Haasan says any political alliance with superstar unlikely if his leanings are different

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Actor Kamal Haasan, who is all set to launch his political party later this month, said he was unlikely to have an alliance with his friend and superstar Rajinikanth if he has a "hue of saffron", in an apparent reference to the latter's promise of ushering in "spiritual politics" in Tamil Nadu.

"If this is the route he (Rajini) is going to take and if the hue he is going to acquire is to be saffron, then I can't see a clear understanding. Unless there is some other explanation that he gives convinces my rational mind," Haasan said while addressing the India Conference 2018 at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Haasan also launched his whistleblower website naalainamadhe.maiam.com.

Haasan said that both their approach and general intent might be the good of the people but he believesd "there is a certain way in which the good will have to come to the people. I don't like to take a detour."

He said that if his and Rajinikanth's manifestos gel, then an alliance might happen for the betterment of the people but it was not likely.

"I don't think so because of the very fact that he in his first announcement made some statements which gave him a hue. Still I hope, it's not saffron," he said, referring to Rajinikanth's promise to usher in spiritual politics in the state when he announced his decision on December 31 to float his own party to contest the next assembly election.

When the moderator, journalist Barkha Dutt, asked whether Rajinikanth's politics goes against his left leanings, Haasan, a self-proclaimed rationalist, said he did not lean on any side.

"I like equipoise. That's why my site is called Maiam (centre)," he said. He also ruled out a post-poll alliance.

In his latest weekly column in a Tamil magazine, he hinted that he might not join hands with Rajinikanth due to ideological differences. Rajinikanth had on a couple of occasions said only time would tell if he would join hands with Haasan in his political journey.

‘MEDIOCRITY IN TN’

  • Haasan is all set to launch his party on February 21 in his native Rameswaram.
     
  • Rajinikanth is busy appointing district level office-bearers for Rajinikanth Mandram (Forum).
     
  • The two actors hope to fill the political vacuum created by the demise of AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa.
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