India, March 22 -- The people of Tamil Nadu are temperamentally very scientific, good in technical education and science but love films, movie stars and have built a cult-kind of respect and stature for actors, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju said on Saturday.

Without mentioning anyone, the Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs said the people of the state were a "very interesting society."

"Tamil people are so talented, they can do wonders if they get good governance," the minister told reporters here.

The BJP leader, who was in the city and attended a private function and addressed law students, said ground reports from the state indicated that there was "discontentment" among the people and that the "anti-incumbency factor is unpreced...