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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