The founder of Makkal Needhi Maiam party Kamal Hassan, attributed to DMK President M.K. Stalin and other parties for copying them in holding Gram Sabha meetings. "Are you not ashamed of copying from an amateur in politics like me?” he questioned.
Referring to the incident where Stalin came out of the Tamil Nadu Assembly in the torn shirt when the AIADMK government led by Chief Minister K. Palaniswami sought the vote of confidence, Kamal Haasan said he cannot be wearing a torn shirt, and even if his shirt gets torn in the Assembly, he would wear another shirt.
This remark of the actor turned politician didn’t go well with DMK Party. DMK's official magazine Murasoli immediately criticized this speech of Kamal Hassan, they stated that the actor is speaking without a steady state of mind ,he is behaving like a shopkeeper who has started his shop but is unable to find customers to sell. None can understand what Kamal says or why he speaks without basic knowledge and one fine day he will make his listeners to tear their shirts apart, and he will never get his shirt torn.
Murasoli had also added that Kamal proved his inexperience by saying that Stalin copied his Grama Sabha measures, quoting that Kalaignar Karunanidhi had conducted Grama Sabha meets when he was a Chief minister.
Adding fuel to this Actor Udhayanidhi Stalin had also took it to Twitter to troll Kamal Haasan with his tweet that says "A tribute to the ignorant Kalaignani Kamal sir who says he was the one who discovered Grama Sabha" and added photos of Stalin's Grama Sabha meetings. According to few people these photos were taken during Stalin's Naalai Namathe campaign. What’s more interesting is Udhayanidhi Stalin had produced Kamal Haasan starrer Manmadhan Ambu in his early days as a producer.