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| Sunday, 21 April 2002 |
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Prabha's effigy burned in Mumbai A political furore aroused in neighbouring India by the recent LTTE media conference has yet to abate with minor Tamil Nadu-based parties now picking up the cudgels in support of the Tigers. While all major national parties in India have reacted in a hostile manner to the Kilinochchi media conference, small pro-LTTE parties in Tamil Nadu have begun a campaign of rallies and demonstrations, in support of the LTTE cause. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha Jayaram's tough anti-LTTE stance attracted the most criticism among political parties of various hues. Ms. Jayalalitha proposed and moved a resolution in the Tamil Nadu legislative Assembly calling New Delhi to urge Colombo to extradite Prabhakaran to India to face trial in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. Meanwhile, Indian Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi, too, condemned the LTTE and, the party's youth activists held a mass protest rally in Mumbai, which ended with the burning of an effigy of the Tiger leader. At this rally, the activists demanded the centre to get Prabhakaran extradited to face charges in the Rajiv Gandhi trial. Indian Deputy Finance Minister Senji Ramachandran addressing another massive rally at Dharamapuri, lashed out at Jayalalitha's stand on the Colombo government - LTTE peace initiatives. "Those who killed innocent people in Kashmir and those who attacked the twin towers in New York are terrorists. But the LTTE is an organisation fighting for the rights of the Tamils in Sri Lanka and it is a liberation movement. It is not a terrorist organisation," he reportedly said. |
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