NE NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, APRIL 3
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s video message to the nation lacked solutions to issues, including economy and ‘shortage’ of personal protection equipment (PPEs), arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic, lamented actor and Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) President Kamal Haasan on Friday.
பிரதமர் பேசுகிறார் என்றதும் நான் அதிகம் எதிர்பார்த்தேன். பாதுகாப்புக்கவசங்கள் தட்டுப்பாடுக்கான தீர்வு, அத்தியாவசிய பொருட்கள் தட்டுப்பாடின்றி விநியோகம், ஏழைமக்களின் வாழ்வாதாரம், வருங்கால பொருளாதார நடவடிக்கை என, ஆனால் நாம் என்றோ கையில் எடுத்த டார்ச்சுக்கே அவர் இன்றுதான் வருகிறார்.
— Kamal Haasan (@ikamalhaasan) April 3, 2020
The actor who had welcomed the Janta curfew call given by Modi earlier, said he had high expectations from his address to the nation on Friday.
In his short video message, Modi urged people to switch off lights in their homes at 9 pm for nine minutes on April 5 and light up lamps, candles, mobile flashlights to display the nation’s collective spirit to defeat the coronavirus.
“I had high expectations when it was said the Prime Minister was going to talk… (and it would be on) solutions to the shortage of protection equipment, free supply of essential commodities, the livelihood of the poor, future economic measures etc,” Haasan said in a tweet.
“But he is coming (referring) only today to the torch light which we had taken in our hands a long time ago,” he said in an apparent reference to his party’s symbol of battery torchlight.
