Kamal Haasan steps up preparations for Lok Sabha polls

Actor-politician Kamal Haasan Tuesday held discussions with office-bearers of his Makkal Needhi Maiam on contesting the coming Lok Sabha elections. The two-day meeting, which began Tuesday at the party office in nearby Pollachi, is being attended by district, assembly constituency and Area in-charges of the party to get feedback and inputs, party sources said.

In-charges from 11 districts including Coimbatore, Tiruppur and Erode, are participating in the meeting. Haasan has recently announced that his party would contest the Lok Sabha polls in alliance with like-minded parties.