Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday asked voters in Tamil Nadu to vote for Kamal Haasan if they wanted roads, schools and hospitals - essentially, development and good governance - minutes after the veteran actor launched his Makkal Needhi Maiam party.

Kejriwal said people in the southern state were ready to throw out the ruling AIADMK and the DMK, the main Opposition party.

In fact, as Kamal Haasan watched, he told a delirious crowd in Madurai that they should vote for those Dravidian parties - which have long dominated Tamil Nadu politics - if they wanted corruption.

He even said voters would help Kamal Haasan better a well-known Aam Aadmi Party record: The 67 seats the then-fledgling outfit won in the 2015 Assembly elections held in Delhi.

Interestingly, Kejriwal's scathing remarks about the DMK comes days after Kamal Haasan called on the party's patriarch, Karunanidhi, in Chennai. The actor said he met him to seek his blessings.

Today, he said his party would set an example of how a government should be run.

"This poor state is because of our corrupt politicians," he said."

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