Love Tamizh Tamils Everyone
Dravida Peravai Policy
We have within the parameters permissible in
Indian Constitution had raised the issue of Ealam Tamils right from 1978. Not
even once we faltered in our footsteps. Nor did we waver in our approach. To my
memory the first public expression of mine on Ealam is likely to be the article
written in "Nam Naadu" Official party organ of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam edited
by Dr.Kalaignar M.Karunanithi on 5 th February 1978.[ From archives if we search
we may even get a proof of earlier date.]
There was a Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in Ceylon
and its General Secretary A.S.Manavai Thambi was exiled and lived in Tamil Nadu.
There was a time wherever Tamils went, whichever land they choose to live, a
separate political party titled Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam will come up in that
soil, which will only have emotional and not political ties with Dravida
Munnetra Kazhagam of India. We come from that ideological background, hence on
all occasions we have raised voice of support for Ealam Tamils. The article"
Ezha Thamizharum Kozhai Thamizharum" praises the brave Tamils of Ealam and
condemns the cowards of Tamil Nadu. This was a time I was in Dravida Munnetra
Kazhagam. During emergency in India, a handful wrote in the official organs of
DMK, of course Dr.Kalaignar fought emergency with his valiant pen. Among the
handful, I am one.
A
SEPARATE TAMIL STATE ONLY SOLUTION TO LANKAN PROBLEM
: SUNDAY
PIONEER
Varanasi:9 July 2000: The General
Secretary of Dravida Peravai party N.Nandhivarman said that a separate state for
the Tamils was the only solution for the prevailing Srilankan
problem.
Talking to reporters at Paradkar
bhavan here on Friday, the party supremo said that the party did not support the
path adopted by LTTE in Srilanka as it was not in the interests of Tamils.
However he said that the party supported the demands of the Tamils in Srilanka
and felt that separate Tamil Ealam was the only solution to the Srilankan
problem.
N.Nandhivarman, who formed the
party after his divorce from DMK, said that his party did not support the LTTE
because the latter could not come to power even if the demands of the Tamils in
Srilanka were accepted. He said it would be a democratic forum which would come
to power in such a situation.
Though Dravida Peravai is an ally
of Samata party, Mr.Nandhivarman and other leaders of the party came here to
attend the proposed national convention of Samata party here on
Saturday.
Expressing serious concerns over
the condition of Tamils in Srilanka, Mr.Nandhivarman said that the voice of
Tamil members of Parliament in Srilanka was always crushed and the Srilankan
government never paid any serious attention to the problems of the
Tamils.
Launching a scathing attack on the
foreign policy of the Indian Government, Mr.Nandhivarman said that its foreign
policy was weak and unclear, especially in the case of Srilanka. He said that
the party would present its paper on the Tamils issue of Srilanka at the
proposed National convention of Samata party and urge the latter to press the
government in this connection.
However, he said that the Indian
government should not meddle in the internal matters of
Srilanka.
In reply to a query
Mr.Nandhivarman said Norway might play a vital role as a mediator. He also
demanded that the Indian jurisdiction in the sea areas, especially Kacchativu
islands, should be redefined.
He said due to some confusion many
Indian fishermen became victims of Srilankan attacks. He said that in this
direction his party had given a "Sethu samudram Yojana' which was also included
in the election manifesto of the National Democratic
Alliance.
The party supremo further said it
was shocking that though the matter was in the poll manifesto of NDA, the BJP
led NDA government did not do anything to implement the
plan.
In a reply to another query, he
said that his party fully supported the continuation of Article 370 in Jammu and
Kashmir. Taking a safe stand that there should be an open debate on it and
nothing should be done behind the curtain.
[courtesy: Sunday Pioneer, the
Sunday paper of THE PIONEER, Lucknow edition in its 136 th year of publication]
During the
press meeting at Varanasi press club, repeatedly I was asked do you support LTTE
? My answer was I support Tamil Ealam. They went on asking would not supporting
Tamil Ealam be indirectly supporting LTTE ?. I said no. Press pressed for
explanations. I told Nethaji's Indian National Army fought for Indian
independence, did they come to power in India? During World War II, whole
Britons supported Winston Churchill and once War was over, they did not need
Churchill. Similarly now it is War and LTTE is fighting a War, after
independence people may choose a democratic alternative. Hence supporting EALAM
will in no way be construed as supporting LTTE.
Not satisfied
press tried to extract from my mouth that I support LTTE. I jokingly said our
policy is LTTE, to Love Thamizh Tamils and Everyone. That joke is the source
to today's web paragraph title.
RECOGNIZE GROUND
REALITIES IN SRILANKA:
THE HINDUSTAN TIMES
[Varanasi , July 7-2000-HT
Correspondent]
Dravida Peravai, the south Indian
political party born after the split in the DMK, urged the Union Government to
frame the right policy that will not alienate Indian Tamils from the National
mainstream and to recognize the ground realities in srilanka by accepting the
Tamils legitimate aspiration for freedom.
" Tamil Ealam's struggle has entered
the final and crucial phase. Let India rise up to the occasion"
Mr.N.Nandhivarman, the general secretary of Pondicherry based party, said.
An associate party of Samata party,
Dravida Peravai,an ardent supporter of Tamil Ealam, urged the Prime Minister for
a proper evaluation of the past to arrive at the right policy towards Tamils
freedom struggle. It brought out a white paper on the ethnic conflict in
Srilanka in May, detailing the ethnic cleansing by Sinhalese since 1983 and the
plight of Tamils in the island.
Talking to media persons here today,
Mr.Nandhivarman said India did not have a clear policy for Srilanka." We do
support the Tamils in the island and do believe that separate state for Tamils
could be the best solution to the ethnic conflict there", he said.
He said "Altogether 23 major
initiatives, to bring forth peace in Srilanka since 1957 till today, have failed
to yield any result. "
"Yet Indian bureaucracy is trying to
mislead the Government stating that a political solution is possible. I wonder
what new proposal India has which forms part of any of the 23 initiatives ?' he
added.
" India that cannot resolve the
Kashmir issue for that matter the question of sub-nationalism within its
territory is now gearing itself to commit another faux pas in its foreign
policy. Dravida Peravai urges the Union Government to be clear in its goals,
sure of its approach and have a clear cut solution in mind before taking the
plunge" Mr.Nandhivarman said
[courtesy: The Hindustan Times July
7,2000]
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