KANCHEEPURAM: actor-politician Kamal haasan On Monday he assured housewives ‘payment’ for their work at home, computer with high-speed internet to all homes and transformation of farmers into agribusiness if his MNM party won power in 2021 Tamil nadu assembly elections.
Revealing his party’s seven-point “Economic and Governance Agenda”, he also said that people below the poverty line would be brought to the “prosperity line.”
“Housewives will get their due recognition through payment for their work at home that until now has not been recognized or monetized, thus elevating the dignity of our women,” the agenda said.
It was launched by Haasan in the presence of former IAS officer Santhosh Babu, who recently joined Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM), in this temple city, near Chennai.
In his election campaign in northern Tamil Nadu for the second day on Monday, the 66-year-old founding leader of MNM claimed that it was possible to send remittances to women at home.
“It is definitely possible,” she said, when asked by journalists about the guarantee of ‘pay’ to women on the agenda, practically a mini party manifesto.
By avoiding corruption, the state could prosper, he added.
Faced with a question, Haasan ruled out joining the great Dravidians: the ruling AIADMK and the DMK.
Although the assembly elections were expected during April-May, the MNM, AIADMK and DMK have already launched their campaign to woo the electorate.
The MNM said that if elected to power, its government will take steps to realize the revolutionary poet Bharati’s dream of empowering women through education, employment and entrepreneurial opportunities.
“Women will break through the glass ceilings established through equal opportunities provided by our MNM government.”
Promising what the party called ‘online homes’, the agenda said that his government would provide a computer along with high-speed Internet (100Mbps and above) over fiber optic cable to each and every household, such as a common property resource by implementing BharatNet and TamilNet Projects.
The plan could bring about a far-reaching transformation and “the Internet will be declared a basic human right,” the party added.
Describing “more green revolution”, the party said that farmers would become agricultural entrepreneurs.
It secured world-class infrastructure amenities such as the village-level cold chain, investments for value-added agriculture, and boosting organic farming as part of its agenda.
MNM would bring people below the poverty line to the ‘prosperity line’, the document said.
With the promise of a ‘green channel’ government, MNM said that all certificates and documents would be issued without the citizen requesting them and these will be delivered to people on their smartphones.
A new law, the Law on the Right to Government Services and predictive governance will be an integral part of your green channel government. “All services to citizens, including the redress of grievances, will be provided within a specified period.”
Paperless government offices, a new department for digital governance, promoting green industries and technologies, and providing urban opportunities in rural areas were among other things on the agenda.
Haasan visited the Dravidian icon and memorial to the late Chief Minister CN Annadurai and interacted with weavers in this city, known for its unique and popular Kancheepuram silk sarees.
The MNM, launched in February 2018, challenged the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and obtained 3.77 percent of the votes. It seeks to offer an alternative to the major Dravidians in state polls, the first after the disappearance of the patriarch of DMK. M Karunanidhi and Supreme AIADMK Jayalalithaa.
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