TNA remarks irk CWC president

by P. Krishnaswamy

CWC President and Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs Muthu Sivalingam castigated TNA parliamentarian P. Sridharan over his recent remarks, at a meeting, that their struggle is also to redeem the plantation community.

Sivalingam asked them to keep away from the plantation community as they live in peace and brotherhood among the other communities and could resolve their grievances. The CWC being a strong political organisation and the government's ally is capable of sorting out their grievances through negotiations, he said.

CWC founder leader Soumiyamurthy Thondaman and the incumbent leader Arumugan Thondaman had tried to persuade them on many occasions in the past to adopt a peaceful and non-violent approach to have any of their just demands fulfilled.

However, they rejected those requests because their mindset was different and they only sought the non-violent path, the Deputy Minister said.

The CWC was successful in resolving many major problems of the plantation community, including their citizenship and franchise rights, through negotiations with the governments in power.

The ruling UPFA Government has done much for their social and economic uplift. The CWC does not want them being dragged into the so-called TNA struggles, he said.