Superstar Rajinikanth has finally ended the suspense over the launch of his own political party with the grand unveiling set to take place in January 2021. Born Shivaji Rao Gaekwad, Rajinikanth started working as a bus conductor for three years before joining an acting school.
More than 24 years after first making his foray from films into close proximity to the world of politics, Rajnikanth made this blockbuster announcement ahead of the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections.
It was Rajnikanth’s famous statement that ‘If Jayalalithaa is voted back to power, even god cannot save Tamil Nadu’ back in 1996 which led to AIADMK’s demise in the elections that year in the state after former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao-led Congress had aligned themselves with Jayalalitha’s party.
In 1998, he had also supported the late Congress leader GK Moopanar, who had launched his own party in Tamil Nadu.
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