A Curse of the Tamil Race
By K.T.Rajasingham
Now the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leadership has provided a golden opportunity for one of the two contending forces to whip up the racial passion of the majority community of the most controversial issue in any political settlement of the Tamil question- in the merger of the North and Eastern provinces.
Now this was totally unnecessary and uncalled for to the TNA to have permitted itself unknowingly and unwittingly to make the election campaign as a whole racial oriented.
Are we going back to the days of the Banda - Chelvanayakam Pact and Dudley – Chelvanayakam Pact, where the Tamils we found themselves , in the end of the day left high and dry with abrogation / nullification of the concerned pacts.
Have we not learnt from the history?
What is going to happen now is, the Tamils are going to confront the hardened Sinahala political opinion.
Inadequacies on the part of Sampanthan are going to have its own impact on the possibilities of a political settlement in the near future.
Going by the past, Sarath Fonseka would be left with no alternatives other than repudiating all the little he had conceded to the TNA and it want be a surprise, if it becomes a reality soon. This could be rightly foretold, given his second nature of saying audaciously something today and deny it tomorrow or the day after.
It is a curse for Tamil race when they are in a critical juncture, that the main political formation of them has R. Samapanthan at its top, a position he usurped , which was not conferred on him by the LTTE, when their political formation the Tamil National Alliance was formulated.
It is indeed a curse for the race that the main Tamil political formation has as its leader a man, who continued to play second fiddle to Late Amirthalingham, followed by V. Ananadasangari, Tamilselvan and Nadesan, who is totally incapable of leading anything in the light of the harsh lesson of history.
- Asian Tribune -
Comments
All voters in Lanka should
All voters in Lanka should ask themselves what are the answers to these FOUR questions :
(1) Do we want to remain as an Independent & Non-Aligned Nation ?
(2) In what other manner could President Rajapakse have won the war against the ltte ?
(3) Have I compared & contrasted the past performances of the two main Candidates,
President Rajapakse & Sarath Fonseka ?
(4) What PRAGMATIC CHANGES would I like to see in the next Government ?
NB: Please note that President Rajapakse had to put trusted people into positions of importance during the war times.
Tamil people can live happily
Tamil people can live happily with the others in Lanka, without listening to some politically bankrupt Tamil politicians who mislead them. Then we will have a truly democratic Lanka.
The Tamil voter must start thinking independently, sans the misleading Tamil politician. Indeed, the time is now arrived for a united & prosperous Lanka, without divisive politics.
Politically bankrupt "politicians"
I cannot understand how a politically bankrupt persons can be politicians. A better term these days would be IDP meaning "Internally Displaced Politicians". They are not displaced by people but by themselves for seeking relocation with better prospects in life. All of them have lost the decency of an average law-abiding citizen of Sri Lanka.
Relocation of Internally Displaced Politicians is a costly affair and all these IDPs have breached the trust the people had placed in them in electing them. People are not aware that all the costs of relocation of these Internally Displaced Politicians and their maintenance thereafter, have to be borne by people in spite of the IDPs breaching the trust. MR or SF must immediately declare that cross-overs would be treated as breaching the public trust and the matter would be dealt with within 30-days of election.
Mr. Franz Dias must take the initiative to address not only the Tamil Voter but all the voters in the country to think independently without submitting to party pressures.