The Tamil Nadu BJP’s proposed protest against the Karnataka government on the Mekedatu dam issue is a double act, Makkal Needhi Maiam president Kamal Haasan said at a press meet in Coimbatore on Tuesday.
“As an actor who essayed double roles in around 25 films, I can easily spot it when somebody plays a double action role. And this is one,” he said. The Tamil Nadu and Karnataka units of the BJP were puppets in the hands of the Central government, he charged.
On the DMK government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, the MNM president said that though it was doing its best, it wasn’t enough. “The government can do more and it must do more. The MNM is here to remind the government,” he said.
In response to a question on the State government’s plan to build a library after demolishing premises constructed in memory of John Pennycuick, architect of the Mullaperiyar dam, in Madurai, he said it would be better if the government left it untouched.
