Tamil Nadu Polls: Smriti Irani Challenges Kamal Hassan For Debate With BJP Candidate

Tamil Nadu elections: Union Minister Smriti Irani challenged Kamal Haasan to come for a debate with Vanathi Srinivasan, "to prove to the people who is it that really knows the issues well, gives solutions and implements policies."

Union Minister Smriti Irani has challenged actor and Makkal Needhi Maiam founder Kamal Haasan to have an open debate with Vanathi Srinivasan, the BJP's candidate for Coimbatore South constituency in Tamil Nadu, after he took on the Centre on issues of development in his campaigns. Mr Haasan is also contesting from this Constituency. Addressing the "North India Community Outreach Programme", organised at Gujarati Samaj in Coimbatore, the BJP leader recalled that she had participated in a debate with him a few years back. "I challenge Kamal Haasan to come for a debate with Vanathi Srinivasan, to prove to the people who is it that really knows the issues well, gives solutions and implements policies," she said. Reeling out statistics on infrastructUre development, she said the Centre has built 10 crore toilets nationwide, of which 90 lakh was in Tamil Nadu.