Northern PC hardliners will be silenced after UNHRC sessions

by P. Krishnaswamy

The goodwill between the Northern PC and the Centre will improve considerably after the March UNHRC sessions because the anti-government communal hardliners of the PC will be sidelined by then, and the moderates will take control, Minister of National Languages and Social Integration Vasudeva Nanayakkara told the Sunday Observer.

PC communal hardliners who have been working in connivance with the pro-LTTE diaspora to tarnish the Government’s image and have resolutions passed at the Geneva sessions against Sri Lanka will not have any cause to pursue once the Geneva sessions are over, he said.

Commenting on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa Jayaram’s stand supporting the LTTE cause, the Minister said that this was for her political expediency to pose as the champion of the Tamils.

She was totally against the LTTE and her own life was in danger when the LTTE was active in Tamil Nadu. But she has now changed her stand as a political stunt to win the support of the Tamils at the forthcoming elections, he said.