Kamal Hassan Links Hindu Groups to Terror

02 November,Chennai

Film Actor Kamal Haasan, who has been expressing his intentions to take the political plunge, has said people have lost faith in Satyameva Jayate and that the right wing Hindus have started employing terrorism to propagate their communal agenda.

Writing in his weekly column ‘Ennul Mayyam Koonda Puyual’ in a Tamil weekly magazine, Kamal took on the alleged Hindu terror and claimed that it as not a new phenomenon.

”You can’t say there is no Hindu terror. Earlier, Hindu extremists held dialogue, now they indulge in violence”, he added.

The ‘Vishwaroopam’ actor further wrote that people have lost faith in Satyameva Jayate.

He said the right-wingers could no longer say “show me a Hindu terrorist if you can…Terrorism has spread into their fold also”.

“Earlier, the right-wing Hindus employed debates and not force, against people of other religions. Having realised that their attempts are failing, they have started using violence,” he said.

Kamal, in his reply to a question posed by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan who had sought his views on “the attempt by Hindutva forces to infiltrate into Tamil Nadu, said “only change is permanent. No matter how many forces push it back, Tamil Nadu will once again prevail as the forerunner in social reforms.”

”Kerala is standing as an example today. Congrats for that”, the 62-year-old actor said.

Observing that Tamil Nadu’s Dravidian tradition was thousands of years old, he said the social revolution brought on by Saint Ramanujar 1,000 years ago was a landmark.

“There is no possibility that the attempt by fascists to shift the world towards the right will succeed. The shift towards the right is only a temporary fashion, a cosmetic change. It will not last”, he added.