{"id":71154,"date":"2020-12-03T12:59:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T17:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=71154"},"modified":"2020-12-03T12:59:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T17:59:46","slug":"i-am-just-a-small-instrument-if-i-win-it-is-peoples-victory-if-i-lose-it-is-peoples-loss-i-request-people-to-be-with-me-i-will-be-more-than-happy-now-if-i-lose-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=71154","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI am just a small instrument. If I win, it is people\u2019s victory. If I lose, it is people\u2019s loss. I request people to be with me.I will be more than happy now if I lose my life for the people&#8221; Says Tamil Film Star Rajinikanth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hours after announcing that he would launch a political party in January 2021, actor Rajinikanth on Thursday said that political change is the need of the hour and that he was just an instrument of the people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Citing the COVID-19 pandemic, he told journalists outside his Poes Garden residence that he was thinking about how this [fighting elections] was possible to do, without meeting people. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut then\u2026when I was ill in Singapore, I came back alive because of their (people) prayers. I will be more than happy now if I lose my life for the people. Political change is very important and the need of the hour. If it doesn\u2019t happen now, it won\u2019t happen ever. Everything needs to be changed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am just a small instrument. If I win, it is people\u2019s victory. If I lose, it is people\u2019s loss. I request people to be with me,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Rajinikanth explained how the pandemic had delayed his political entry. \u201cIn 2017, I had said that I will not contest in local polls and I will decide on Lok Sabha elections at that time. And I will start a political party before the State Assembly elections and contest in all 234 constituencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cIn Leela Palace hotel in March, I had said that we need to create an uprising among people and then I will start a party. I had planned to tour Tamil Nadu, but the COVID-19 pandemic made it impossible to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elaborating on his fragile health, Mr. Rajinikanth said, \u201cEverybody knows that I have had a kidney transplant. The natural (body\u2019s) immunity needs to be reduced to enable the body to accept a new organ. However, the body needs immunity to fight COVID-19. This is a big problem. Doctors advised that it was dangerous to meet people and campaign.\u201d But now he had decided to take the plunge, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Rajinikanth said that prominent political activist Tamilaruvi Manian will supervise party activities along with R. Arjunamoorthy, who joined him after quitting as State BJP intellectual cell president.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Hindu<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton71154\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D71154&amp;text=%E2%80%9CI%20am%20just%20a%20small%20instrument.%20If%20I%20win%2C%20it%20is%20people%E2%80%99s%20victory.%20If%20I%20lose%2C%20it%20is%20people%E2%80%99s%20loss.%20I...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hours after announcing that he would launch a political party in January 2021, actor Rajinikanth on Thursday said that political change is the need of the hour and that he was just an instrument of the people. Citing the COVID-19 pandemic, he told journalists outside his Poes Garden residence that he was thinking about how &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=71154\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;\u201cI am just a small instrument. If I win, it is people\u2019s victory. If I lose, it is people\u2019s loss. I request people to be with me.I will be more than happy now if I lose my life for the people&#8221; Says Tamil Film Star Rajinikanth&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71155,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71154\/revisions\/71155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}