Salon owner Kumaravel resigns from Kamal Haasan's MNM

CHENNAI: C K Kumaravel, promoter of Naturals’ beauty salon chain, on Monday resigned from actor Kamal Haasan’s Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM), alleging lack of transparency in its functioning. However, in a statement, MNM said Kumaravel had to leave the party for violating party principles.


Kumaravel, who was a member of the party’s executive committee, was expected to be fielded by the MNM in the Cuddalore Lok Sabha constituency in the ensuing Lok Sabha polls.

But even before the party formally announced the decision, he wrote in social media posts that he was contesting from Cuddalore, the party said. The process of interviewing candidates is still on. He did not attend the interview and when queried, his response for not attending was not convincing, the party said in a statement.

“The quantum of internal politics and management committee’s attitude to inner party democracy has led me to this decision,” Kumaravel wrote in his letter to party president Kamal Haasan , on is decision to resign from the membership of the party as well as from its executive committee. “Based on the assurance that I will be fielded from Cuddalore, I had started the ground work” he later explained in his social media posts.