Another blow to Kamal Haasan's MNM: Ex-IAS Santosh Babu quits after emotional message

Days after party vice president Mahendran exited Kamal Haasan's MNM after Tamil Nadu polls debacle, former IAS officer Santosh Babu resigned as a Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) member citing personal reasons. former bureaucrat's exit comes days after Kamal Haasan dubbed Mahendran as a 'coward' and had claimed that he was happy that 'weed had got rid of itself'. Taking to Twitter, former IAS officer Santosh Babu thanked Kamal Haasan & team for ir affection & friendship and anunced that he was resigning from both his post & membership in Makkal Needhi Maiam(MNM).   

After VP Mahendran, ex-IAS officer quits Kamal Haasan's MNM

MNM blamegame begins

Just a few days earlier, Makkal Needhi Main (MNM) vice president Dr Mahendran had resigned from party's primary membership as he saw ' hope for any change in attitude or approach' of party president Kamal Haasan with regards to functioning of outfit. Anuncing his decision to quit MNM, Mahendran stated that Haasan he knew would always give preference to party ideology and would stand shoulder-to-shoulder with cadre and hoped that Kamal Haasan 'regains & retains' leadership qualities that he had once displayed. Explaining rationale behind his resignation, former MNM vice president ted that he had worked vigorously with Kamal Haasan during 'good old days' between April 2018 to September 2019 to make party election ready and claimed that re was a decline in Kamal Haasan's 'tenacity of purpose'. 

Hours after R Mahendran quit party, Kamal Haasan had attempted dam control on Thursday. In a 12-p statement, Mahendran claimed that things changed for worst when Sankhya Solutions was roped in to man party's poll campaign in 2019. Since n, actor-turned-politician t only became distant from MNM workers but also did t discuss important matters even with him, it was alleged. According to him, MNM had failed to win a single seat in Assembly polls due to "poor decisions" on seat-sharing, alliance talks and choice of seat Haasan had ended up contesting from.

DMK emerges victorious in Tamil Nadu Assembly elections

DMK denied AIADMK opportunity to return to power for third consecutive term and comfortably swept recently concluded Assembly polls, ensuring its return to power after ten years. While DMK won 133 seats in 234-seat Assembly, its allies Congress, VCK, CPI, CPIM emerged victorious in 18, 3 and two seats respectively. AIADMK, 'big bror' of NDA alliance, mand to win just 66 seats while its allies BJP and PMK won four and five seats respectively. In past, DMK had been ruling party five times, during 2006-11, 1996-2001, 1989-91, 1971-76, and 1967-71. Earlier on Tuesday MNM chief met MK Stalin at his residence and congratulated him on DMK’s victory in assembly elections. Kamal Haasan also congratulated Udhayanidhi Stalin, who won from Chepauk-Tiruvallikeni constituency in Chennai.