South superstar turned politician Kamal Haasan questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the new parliament project for which he had laid the foundation stone recently. The attack came in hours before he launched his two-year-old party's campaign for the 2021 Tamil Nadu Assembly polls.
The veteran actor and founder of Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) on Sunday asked what was the point of such a massive financial indulgence at a time when the country's economy was facing severe turbulence. "Why a 1,000-crore new Parliament when half of India is hungry, losing livelihood due to coronavirus. When thousands died as the Great Wall of China was being built, the rulers said it was to protect people. To protect whom are you building the Rs1,000-crore Parliament? Please answer my honourable elected PM," Kamal Haasan tweeted on Saturday.
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(1/2)— Kamal Haasan (@ikamalhaasan) December 13, 2020
On December 10, Prime Minister Narendra Modi performed a ceremony in the heart of Delhi for the new parliament building, set to be the centrepiece of the 20,000-crore project to refurbish the Central Vista of the national capital.
Assembly elections are due during April-May 2021 in Tamil Nadu.
(Source: Twitter)
