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Modi recently met the TNA in New Delhi and discussed their concerns and issues faced by the Tamils in Sri Lanka. “Dealing with the Tamil question is no more a monopoly of either the TNA or the ITAK. There are several serious blunders the TNA had committed. The TNA changed the course of history by their conduct, one of which was, on the instructions of the LTTE, prevented the Tamils from taking part in the presidential election held in 2005 and the other too was a similar blunder, in asking the Tamil people to vote for a particular Sinhala candidate which made most Sinhala people to unite and help another one to win and defeat TNA’s claim that only the Tamils can determine as to who will get elected as President.
“To mention a third incident, the TNA refusing to meet the Indian Foreign Secretary Shri Shiv Shankar Menon when asked to do so by him. At that time the war was at its high pitch and several innocent people were dying. If the meeting had taken place he would have advised them as to how to save the lives of thousands of men, women and children. The TNA must share the blame for these large-scale deaths,” he said.
Aandasangaree says action should be taken forthwith to consult various political parties of Tamils and Tamil-speaking people to know their views.
He says the intention of meeting the party leaders is not to confront any one of them including the TNA and the ITAK, who should be warned of their links with the LTTE if they are serious in finding solutions but to arrive at a consensus and to see to what extent the Tamil parties can compromise. (Colombo Gazette)
