Chennai: After the recent poll debacle, several leaders in Kamal Haasan’s Makkal Needhi Maiam resigned from the party.
Prominent among them was vice president Dr Mahendran.The Kovai strongman will join the DMK later today at the Anna Arivalayam in Chennai in the presence of DMK president and Chief Minister MK Stalin.
Makkal Needhi Maiam contested the Assembly elections for the first time. In this, it formed an alliance with All India Samathuva Makkal Katchi and Indhiya Jananayaga Katchi. The Makkal Needhi Maiam lost in all the constituencies in which it contested. Kamal Haasan also lost to BJP’s Vanathi Srinivasan in the Coimbatore South constituency.
MNM leaders including CK Kumaravel and Santosh Babu among others quit after the defeat forcing Kamal to rejig the party.
Mahendran was known to be the next important face after Kamal in the party. In a recent statement, Mahendran stated that he joined hands with MNM in 2018 after Kamal Haasan expressed his wish to bring about a change in the State’s electoral politics.
However, Mahendran claimed things went sour after the inclusion of a few people as advisors.