The two-day Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State delegates' meet, beginning in Madurai on April 28, will urge Sri Lanka to treat Tamils there as equal citizens, P. Muralidhara Rao, one of the general secretaries of the party, told a press conference here on Tuesday.
“The Sri Lankan Tamils issue is not of concern only to those in Tamil Nadu but all over the country. While we want a strong and vibrant government in Sri Lanka, we want no discrimination against Tamils there. Besides, those who took part in crimes against them during the last days of internal strife should be brought to book as attacks on civilians should not be equated with the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.”
Another important issue that would come up for discussion was the plight of Tamil Nadu fishermen. The Union government had failed to protect them and their interests. To a question on the visit of the parliamentary delegation led by Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, to Sri Lanka, he said that the boycott by major political parties in Tamil Nadu was a blow. The government had failed to convince these parties about the necessity of the visit. “However, the boycott by these parties does not belittle the purpose for which the delegation has been sent by the government.” Mr. Rao said this was the fifth State delegates' meet after 13 years.
Keywords: Sri Lankan Tamils issue, LTTE, BJP
Can an alleged war criminal Rajapakse regime believe in democracy and eqaulity? The politicians are mad and insane to ask the SL regime to treat equally.
And Mr.Prabhat Rao,
The fact is even if DMK/ADMK rules Karnataka (just assume) water will cannot be released from the state. Becoz the problem is with the people of Karnataka and not with the government of Karnataka. It is an election issue. Now coming to reality how many water bodies are being maitained by our beloved Tamil people? Our ancient kings had far in-sight about the geography of TN state and therefore constructed DAMS, Temple ponds. What is the state of all those things? And what is the state of Cooum river? How much importance we give to our own water boides. But we do complain that neighbouring states are not sharing water. First let us acheive that target and then teach a lesson to other states.
Mr.Prbhata Rao,
Your introduction and the first question does not make any sense. Thought the second question has some sense.
Mr Rao, forget care for Tamil or any other language apart from Hindi for that matter. My question is if BJP is truly for Hindutva, why is it cosing up with the Singhalese government who are instrumentally destroying so many Tamil Hindu temples from Chola and Jaffna periods and replacing Tamil history with Buddhist viharas? Why do they not call for strong legal, economic or political sanctions to stop millions of innocent Tamil Hindus being killed and tortured in Sri Lanka? Looks like all their talk about Hindutva fails outside our borders.
I have just two questions to BJP which has been of late pretending
with pseudo Tamil sympathy. 1) Will BJP work towards making Tamil as an official language at the center and speak against thrusting Hindi on non-Hindi speaking states by rejecting Hindi Prachar Sabhas across the country? 2) Will BJP resolve Cauvery water dispute with Karnataka where BJP is the ruling party?
Why BJP or anybody else in that matter think that there are no equal rights to Tamils in Sri Lanka?. Tamils as same as Sinhalese and Muslims inSri Lanka are enjoying everything inlcuding democracy, free education, free health, welfare, language priority, holidays, freedom of expression, same law and order....so what is this nonsense???IN fact more than 50% Tamils are living in the Colombo and in the Western Sri Lank. BJP as same as Western politicians are just trumpeting what LTTE Tamil diaspora are misinforming the world.
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