Padma Priya, the YouTuber who shot to fame overnight through her monologue video on the draft Environmental Impact Assessment 2020 and later found place in Kamal Haasan’s Makkal Needhi Maiam as Environment Wing head has quit the party citing ‘personal reasons’.
Dear All,
This is to inform that after a lot of thought I have resigned from my post of MNM State Secretary (Env. Wing) and Party Primary Membership for my personal reasons. I sincerely thank Shri. KamalHaasan & wish the party all success in the future.— Padma Priya (@Tamizhachi_Offl) May 13, 2021
She had contested in the 2021 Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections from the Maduravoyal Constituency and got 33401 votes.
The YouTube-beautician-turned-social activist was called out by many for her absurd claims about the draft EIA 2020. In her video she had made baseless claims saying that the draft EIA 2020 would spell the doomsday for the entire country and that the city of Chennai would go under water and Tamil Nadu would turn into a desert. She had even gone to the extent of saying that no one would be able to question even if a nuclear plant were to burst.
She had put out another video demanding the release of Perarivalan, one of the convicted terrorist responsible for killing India’s former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Former IAS officer Santhosh Babu too announced his resignation from the party citing personal reasons. The mass exodus from Kamal Haasan’s party began with Dr. Mahendran, the ex-Vice President of the party quitting citing Kamal’s undemocratic behaviour and interference by campaign strategy firm Sankhya Solutions that was hired by the latter.
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