'Obscured partisan principals and came here': Kamal Haasan on joining Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra

Haasan was joined by the MNM functionaries, who were approached to join by the party boss in a video message on Friday saying that the walk is for the country and is past gatherings.

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Entertainer turned government official and Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) president Kamal Haasan on Saturday joined the Congress' Bharat Jodo Yatra in New Delhi.

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Haasan, during a discourse at the Red Post, said, "Many individuals asked me for what valid reason I'm here. I'm here as an Indian.

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My dad was a Representative. I have had different philosophies and begun my own ideological group however with regards to the nation,

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call partisan principals need to obscure. I obscured that line and came here." Haasan was joined by the MNM functionaries,

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cwho were approached to join by the party boss in a video message on Friday, saying that the walk is for the country and is past gatherings.

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cPrior, the MNM boss said Congress pioneer Rahul Gandhi kept in touch with him welcoming him to partake in the Bharat Jodo Yatra not as head of an ideological group but rather as a compatriot.

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cThe choice of Haasan to join Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra has shown that the decision DMK-drove partnership in Tamil Nadu,

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cIt is to be noticed that the yatra started from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu on September 7 with Boss Priest M K Stalin giving over the public banner to Rahul Gandhi

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Since its send off in mid 2018, Haasan's party, Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM), has kept up with that it will "go solo and do it

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