Kamal Hassan wants to try his luck again. He failed in the elections in the earlier times. He wants to contest with the support of the INDIA block this time.
For the veteran actor contesting from Coimbatore, a seat of the alliance partner CPI-M, the DMK will require several rounds of discussions with the CPI-M leadership as also with other coalition partners but if the seat is either Chennai (North, Central or South), it can easily allocate the seat from its own kitty.
While the three Chennai seats are represented by the DMK, all three are heavy weight candidates from known political families of DMK.
While Dayanidhi Maran is the cousin of party supremo and Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin,Dr Kalanidhi Veeraswamy is the son of former minister and powerful leader Arcot N.Veeraswami.
The DMK MP from Chennai South is Dr Thamizachi Thangapandian whose father was a former MLA and brother is Tamil Nadu‘s minister Thangam Thenarasu.
However, Kamal Haasan has an advantage in Coimbatore as he had contested the 2021 assembly elections from Coimbatore South, losing it by a slender margin of 1,540 votes to the BJP Women’s wing leader, Vanathi Sreenivasan.
It may be recalled that in the 2019 general elections, Kamal Haasan’s MNM candidate, Dr R. Mahendran stood third in the Coimbatore Lok Sabha seat, polling 1,45,104 votes with a vote share of 11.6 per cent of the total votes polled.
