Superstar Rajinikanth's striking announcement to his office bearers

Rajinikanth, the superstar of Indian cinema, set fire on the media by announcing his long awaited political entry, on the ultimate day of 2017. From then he is always in the limelight, mostly for the political debates. As expected he received both supports and criticisms for his decision. And the core of his political agenda, “Aanmeega arasiyal” meaning non-communal politics was the most criticised one. Many took it to be spiritual concept and labelled him as religiously biased, which he clarified as not true.



The calm and composed Rajinikanth was not affected by these opinions revolving around him, which he felt as a waste of time in answering baseless allegations. Instead he started the groundwork for his political party, which is to be announced by him in the near future. First step by him towards it, is to club all his fans club and charity clubs, in all districts into a single umbrella called Rajini Makkal Mandram. Announcements of secretaries and other office bearers for every district was done in a faster pace.

Initial hurdles:
Forming a political party is not at all easy and it was a bit more tough to Rajinikanth because his basic policy that politics is not for accumulating wealth but to serve the society, did not go well with few of the people surrounding him, who had different aspirations. People who were members in the fans club for years expected to acquire a position in the RMM but that was not the only qualification assigned by the office.

RMM wanted to give opportunities to people of different walks of life including well educated, soundly aware about the societal happenings and women members. Based on such qualities people were selected as per the suggestions given by the chief fans club of every district. As it is common in every political party, here too there were few wrong selections, who intended for personal benefits, which was found and removed by the high command.

Strong instructions from the leader:
The above said activities by RMM attracted both positive and negative criticisms. Many felt it as optimistic to remove all irrelevant people right at the starting stage so that the party will evolve with a clean chit. Few others felt it to be a great setback at the very initial stage of RMM, which may bring a downfall to the not yet developed party. Few even interpreted that Rajinikanth who is busy in his movie schedules is totally unaware of the events.

After wrapping up his much awaited “Petta” movie schedule, Rajinikanth returned back to Chennai and the first thing to be done by him is to publish an announcement for the office bearers of RMM. With this , he clarified that everything is happening under his supervision and most importantly , it set out the strict instructions to be followed by his office bearers. Let us have a quick glance on the important points.

Being a member of fans club for years cannot be accepted as an eligibility to attain a position in RMM.

By possessing fans club alone no one can win politically, because politics is not a place to earn money. So people with expectations on financial benefits are strictly forbidden from RMM. Such people should stay away from it.

People with societal concern and ready to work hard for the welfare of the society will be definitely assigned in RMM. Persons who aspire for political positions and associated luxuries has no place in RMM.

RMM does not encourage people who ignores their family responsibility for indulging in office activities. The office bearers should fulfil their personal duties first and then work for RMM. Most importantly, RMM does not welcome any monetary expenses from its members for official activities.

Members of RMM need not react or respond to the rumoursspreaded in social media. It is mere waste of time, instead they should concentrate on the development of RMM.

RMM activities are directly reported to Rajinikanth himself and he is well known about the happenings up to date. He is very well aware of the persons who are working hard and sincere to the office and this dedication will not go in vain. Such people’s hard work will be returned back with what they deserve.


Overall analysis:
The stunning announcement made by the superstar shows that he is not in a position to compromise with any mishappening in his office. He once again reiterated that his political mission cannot be misused and his focus is to create a new dimension in the Tamil nadu political arena, thus bringing a positive change in the state. He articulated the need of change in the state politics, during his photoshoot with his fans in the month of May, last year, complaining that the governmental system is corrupted to the core.

Every common man at one point or the other must have thought about an ideal political party with certain qualities. The announcement made by Rajinikanth today is matching up with this popular political ideal type. But it can be celebrated only when these ideologies are strictly implemented without any compromise. Only time and Rajinikanth’s active political journey can answer this.

Speculations and questions around him:
We are in a bad state of humanera , where when people talk about honesty and selflessness, they are ridiculed and labelled as conservatives or fraudulent. Any political party, world wide will have an agenda that is impressive in theory but how far it is effective practically is a big question mark. Similar doubt arises around the political dimension of Rajinikanth also which we have to wait and watch.

There are certain other reasons like the time he took to decide his political entry, which is a span of more than 20 years, because he was expected to enter politics long back in the 90s itself. It is about one year since his announcement and still he is taking time to float his official party. Rajinikanth is very frank in nature and at times his frankness leads to misinterpretations about his political statements which might be more precise and clear once he actively takes part in politics.

To conclude:
As per the words of Rajinikanth, almost 90 percent of his party works are completed, so we may expect the floating of his party very soon. The announcements made by him to his office bearers can be assumed as the preamble of his political agenda. Based on these points, it is understood that the superstar wishes to form a genuine party creating a new dimension in the politics with a single strong goal of serving the society and to develop the standard of living of all sections of people.

The idea and ideology put forth by the legendary actor turned politician has all qualities to receive a warm welcome. It takes a lot of guts to pose such strict rules at the very early stage, which Rajinikanth dared to do is really appreciable. But how far it is possible to materialise it lies in the forthcoming actions to be taken by him. I don’t want to be judgemental at this point of time because I believe that first a chance should be given to prove himself and then he should be estimated based on the course of his action. Ultimately, whoever or whatever that brings all good to the society is always welcomed.
WRITTEN BY SOCIAL AUTHOR:  PRABHA KATHAMUTHU

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