Accordingly CK Kumaravel, CEO and co-founder of Naturals Salons has quit actor turned politician Kamal Hassan’s Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM), citing internal politics. Meanwhile the businessman had joined Kamal’s core team soon after the actor launched his party in February last year. Reportedly on Monday, over a year later, Kumaravel quit the party in a letter to party chief Kamal Hassan.
Kumaravel said “The reason for quitting is internal politics,” he declares, while pointing out that the entry into the party of Dr Mahendran escalated matters. Doctor and vanilla farmer Mahendran was appointed MNM's Vice President in November last year. Apparently with Dr Mahendran coming into the picture, the internal party politics increased multifold. Meanwhile when someone is getting announced as joining the party as Vice President 30 minutes before a program, it becomes very difficult to manage the front end.
Further Kumaravel says, “Kamal has a good vision, he puts in a lot of effort. But the team around him is detrimental to him, the party and to his vision.” Did Kamal try to persuade the businessman to stay? “No, he thinks he’s busy". A lot of people told him that he was being foolish. But he told himself that if he don’t go and support Kamal now, then he will have no locus stand to speak later". When clarifying that he will not be joining another party, the businessman adds that his stint with MNM had left him richer in life experience.
