Actor Rajinikanth has announced he won’t be entering, due to health reasons. “I regret to inform that I am not going to launch a political party,” the actor said in a statement that he shared on social media.

Rajinikanth said he would serve the people, in whatever ways he could, without entering politics.

The 70-year old actor was admitted to a Hyderabad hospital on December 25 with severe hypertension and exhaustion.

He was admitted for a couple of days before being discharged on Sunday.