TMP will be a watchdog of Tamil politics, says Wigneswaran
Chief Minister C.V.Wigneswaran, has clarified that the Tamil Makkal Peravai (TMP), which he has floated, is not a rival to the Tamil National Alliance (TNA).
He says but it is a non-partisan, civil society watchdog meant to see that the basic interests of the Lankan Tamils are upheld by their leaders and not compromised for petty gains.
Speaking at the second formal meeting of the TMP in Jaffna, Wigneswaran said that given its broad-based, grassroots character, the TMP will help the TNA and other Tamil political parties take the right decisions and the right approach to the problems of the Tamils.
He pointed that, traditionally, the powers-that-be in Lanka have tried to co-opt and neutralize sections of the Tamil leadership to subvert the unity of the Tamils and render them incapable of fighting for their rights effectively.
Individualistic leaders may fall prey to the blandishments of the Establishment. But the Establishment will not dare trifle with leaders who have the backing of the people at large. The TMP, Wigneswaran said, is only meant to give the present Tamil leaders (including those of the TNA) the necessary broad-based backing so that governments are forced to turn their attention from trying to satisfy the needs of individual leaders to meeting the demands of the Tamils as a whole.
The Chief Minister said that there is concentration of power in the hands of a few Tamil leaders, and warned that individual leaders or political brokers cannot win for the Tamils, their legitimate rights Wigneswaran asked people to be aware of the ideological dimension of majoritarian Lankan politics. Sinhalese majoritarian parties may be competing against each other for political power, but they unite against the Tamils. This is because of the ideological element in the Tamil question.
Time has come for the Tamils to go beyond the political party system, Wigneswaran said. Since party structures and discipline restrict the space of its members, independent, broad based, civil society groups like TMP, can provide a supplementary platform for the expression of views and programs of action, he said. (NIE)
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What are the legitimate rights of the Tamil leaders speak of.
The Tamils are dispersed through out the island and are entitled to Constitutional rights and any violation of these rights can be challenged in any court of law. There are hundreds of Tamil lawyers practicing the law thus constituted therefore the legitimate rights of the Tamil citizens cannot be resolved by politicians with sinister objectives some who belong to the sirisena–ranil alliance.
Wigneswaran’s TMP should allow those elected by the people should be allowed to represent the will of the people and allow the people to be the judge and not be influenced by wigneewarans hegemony.
It is time rapprochement and assimilation and not division designed to another cycle of violence
Nee poo daa, kallathoni….