Chennai: Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan has taken the fight straight to the DMK bastion, attacking the grand old party of Tamil Nadu for its ‘dynasty politics’, after earlier calling them a ‘corrupt party’. Speaking in Thiruvarur, the constituency of late Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam patriarch M Karunanidhi, Haasan took on DMK on the first anniversary of his party Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) and said that he wanted to shift the mindset of the people from ‘dynasty politics’.

Haasan said at the public gathering “Thiruvarur is a place that has given Tamil Nadu many great artists and leaders but has also given family and inheritance politics to Tamil Nadu and that has spoilt the state…this is the reason why Thiruvarur has taken a centre stage in my mind... The people of Tamil Nadu want to change this kind of politics and even I want to change this kind of politics,”.

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Earlier this month, the DMK was miffed with the fact that the Congress invited MNM to join the grand alliance of all opposition parties following his ‘corrupt DMK’ remarks. Haasan had earlier announced that his party would contest on all 39 seats in Tamil Nadu on its own and that he plans to “serve good for the people with clean hands”. “We are trying to keep our hands clean by not allying with any of the Dravidian parties,”” the 64-year-old had said.

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However, he had also urged GK Mani-led Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) and Tamil film actor Vijayakanth’s Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) not to join hands with DMK. The Tamil superstar launched MNM on January 30 after a year of work-in-progress. He said that his party would focus on the development plank in Tamil Nadu and that he is not averse to joining hands with parties who think alike.