President will offer viable political solution:
TNA MP pledges support to Govt
by P. KRISHNASWAMY
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Vavuniya district Parliamentarian
Sivanathan Kishore castigated the LTTE saying that the outfit’s rhetoric
of heroism and valour over the past several decades had achieved nothing
other than leading them to their present plight.
Wanni District TNA MP Sivanathan Kishore who abstained from voting
during the vote on the extension of the Emergency in Parliament recently
told the Sunday Observer that he and certain other TNA parliamentarians
would be meeting President Mahinda Rajapaksa shortly to pledge their
support and cooperation to the Government’s rehabilitation and
resettlement programs for over 250,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
The bulk of the people now languishing as the IDPs belonged to his
Wanni constituency and it was nothing but fair on his part to support
the Government’s humanitarian welfare measures now being extended to
them and other plans for their rehabilitation and resettlement, he said.
Asked to comment on Kumaran Pathmanathan’s proclamation in the pro-LTTE
TamilNet website of a ‘provisional transnational government’, he said it
was absurd and shameful for them to make such announcements after
causing destruction of life and property for so long and ultimately
leading the Tamil people to their present plight.
He did not dismiss speculation of the TNA joining the Government.
He strongly believes that President Mahinda Rajapaksa will offer a
just and viable political package by way of a lasting solution to the
Tamil problem and was not inclined in pressing any specific proposals,
he said, adding that his objective was a life of dignity and
independence for Tamils.
Explaining that the situation of the TNA parliamentary group was
precarious during the LTTE regime which inhibited their independent
stance on several vital issues concerning the Tamil people, he pointed
out that all LTTE rhetoric of heroism and valour over the past several
decades had achieved nothing other than leading them to their present
plight.
“We cannot remain passive observers while the Government is engaged
in measures for the welfare and rehabilitation of displaced Tamil
people”, he said.
His party hierarchy had so far not raised any objections to his
change of stance and he believed that his fellow parliamentarians will
also support his stance in the best interests of the of Tamil people in
the North, he said.
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