The TNA stalwart Kajendran MP back in Colombo

Selvaraj Kajendran, the TNA Member of Parliament, who was on an extended honeymoon with his newly wed wife has landed in Colombo on the 28 November, after an absence of two long years.

His arrival coincides with the appeal made by General (retd.) Sarath Fonseka, the presidential candidate to the supporters of the LTTE and to the remnant LTTE cadres.

Only on last Sunday Sarath Fonseka , while addressing the media at the JAIC Hotel, Colombo declared his candidacy at the forthcoming presidential election and appealed to the remnant LTTE cadres and the supporters of the LTTE to join his campaign to defeat President Mahinda Rajapaksa. He said that even LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran's parents were welcome to back him.

Kajendran who was on a continuous leave for the last two years from the Parliament, returned back to the Island from Norway on the 28 of November.

Sathasivam Kanagaratnam MP in detention

He is one of the two TNA Members who suddenly disappeared from the political arena.

The other one was the Vanni district parliamentarian Sathasivam Kanagaratnam who is now being detained by the Army for being with the IDPs in the last days of the campaign with the LTTE. It is learnt that TNA has so far not made any attempts either to obtain his release by negotiaon with the Government or by filing an fundamental right case in the Supreme Court .

However the TNA Member of Parliament Kajendran who was staying in Norway for the last two years, said to be a strong LTTE stalwart who polled over one hundred thousand preferential votes in the Parliamentary general election held on April 2004.

He was one of the handpicked candidates of Prabhakaran, the former leader of the LTTE.

It was an open secret that he was responsible for stuffing ballot boxes at that parliamentary election on the instigation Prabhakaran.

Sri Lankan Army would be dispatched to Colombo in 40,000 coffins

When the Sri Lankan Government was considering for a humanitarian campaign to liberate the Tamils from the clutches of the LTTE, Kajendran roared that Sri Lankan Army must be ready with 40,000 coffins to recieve their army soldiers in Jaffna, in case LTTE is being attacked.

Kajendran MP after his marriage in Vanni, obtained special permission from the LTTE leader to take his wife out of Vanni to Colombo and to Norway.

While the war was raging he kept himself away from the country and was maintaining a low profile.

Now it is learnt that he will have a hostile reception once he set his foot in Jaffna and his onetime stronghold, the Jaffna University is completely changed and almost majority of the undergraduates are with the EPDP Leader Minister Douglas Devanada.

Rumors are afoot that he may join Sarath Fonseka’s bandwagon in the forthcoming presidential election as a strategic plan of the LTTE for future offensives.

- Asian Tribune -