CHENNAI: With veteran actor Kamal Haasan aspiring to become politician and all set to launch his political party, DMK working president M.K. Stalin taunted the actor saying "attractive paper flowers may bloom but they are not fragrant." "Attractive flowers bloom when there's a change in the season and eventually they wither away. Similarly, in the Tamil political arena attractive paper flowers may bloom. But they are not fragrant, are they?" Mr. Stain asked in his letter addressed to DMK party members, on Tuesday.

Taking a dig at the political entry of Kamal Haasan and Tamil film 'superstar' Rajinikanth, he said unlike such flowers, the DMK is like the thousand-year crop. "It is the Dravidian language pride; it is a food for the Tamil people's rights," he wrote in the letter. "I give the assurance that everything will be done for the success of the movement!," he said. His letter comes a day after Kamal met both DMK chief M. Karunanidhi and Stalin at their residence here.





Ahead of his political tour, Kamal Haasan has been meeting political leaders in the city. He met Rajinikanth at his Poes Garden residence here on Sunday and DMDK leader Vijayakanth at his Koyambedu office. The actor is scheduled to launch his party in Madurai on Wednesday. Kamal Haasan was quick to retort to Mr Stalin's jibe, telling reporters at Madurai that "I am not a flower, I am a seed, sow me, I will grow."

Mr Stalin also said that DMK was a massive people's movement nurtured by late party founder C. N. Annadurai and party patriarch M. Karunanidhi. The party cannot be shaken by anyone who is driven by ideology and it is the lifeline of the people's rights. Calling himself a "front line worker" who is part of the larger one crore cadres of DMK, he said he would continue the interactive sessions with party workers and once again assured of steps for the "party's victorious forward march."