"I am not against the industry at all. Without that [the industry], the State will not stand in its feet. But, it cannot accept a secret deal between the government and industrialists. This has to go. We have to live by the limits that has been set by a civic society," said actor Kamal Haasan, who recently started a political party in the name of Makkal Needhi Maiam.

Giving a talk on 'We the Change’ at an event organised by Chennai International Cente, Haasan said "because of one factory, people are dying inThoothukudi. I have been there. I have talked to experts, and heard both sides. I think businessmen can be ambitious not avaricious'.

There will be more marches if anybody tries to blatantly violate rules, which cannot be done, he said on his participation in various agitations, including the one in Thoothukudi against Sterlite Industries.

Team H17

On his plan for Tamil Nadu's economic development Haasan said, a team of 17 people in Harvard, who are called H17, are helping him device a strategy. He warned that the state is going to be left with a deficit of nearly Rs 25,000 lakh crore by 2020.

The talk was first in a new series started by the centre on Leadership Vision for TN: The Next Orbit.

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