VIGNESWARAN’S OUTBURSTS

 

Northern Council Chief Minister Vigneswaran’s  outbursts have now come to a crescendo with the possibility for an explosion if not suppressed now.

One wonders how this normally sedate ex-judge of the supreme court has transformed himself to a reincarnation of the slain Tiger leader, Prabhakaran with ridiculous demands.  He started off shooting his missiles with a resolution passed in his council alleging genocide of Tamils by the Sri Lankan government and then followed it up with a call to the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister seeking her intervention in solving the “Tamil issue” in Sri Lanka, which was totally uncalled for as foreign relations should be handled between the two central governments.  Surely, being an ex-judge he should have known better.

Most of his pronouncements and actions have adequately demonstrated his sympathies towards the anarchic Tamil tigers who wreaked havoc in Sri Lanka and as a chief minister, one would have expected a much more dignified stance from him when it comes to such issues.

When the Sri Lankan government launched the Moragahakanda project recently  which is going to provide increased water supply to the Northern farmers, instead of appreciating the move, Vigneswaran is claiming ownership of such water as if he is a ruler of a separate country.

And now, he has demanded that Northern and Eastern provinces should be merged regardless of the feelings of the Muslims in the East.  Perhaps, he has conveniently forgotten that the two provinces were demerged as a result of a supreme court judgement and that no sensible person in this country would opt to change the status quo.  Vigneswaran would do well to accept the fact that there are more Tamils living in other parts of the country along with Sinhalese and Muslims and that there is no justification for a merger or a separately administrated state for the Tamils in North and East.

Undoubtedly, Vigneswaran seems to be hell bent on rousing the other communities to bring back the era of Tamil Tigers to destabilize the country in spite of the fact that the new Yahapalana government is determined to achieve communal harmony.

Therefore, it is high time that the government take a strong line against the outbursts of Vigneswaran before he becomes another Varadaraja Perumal who declared unilateral independence (UDI) when he was the Chief Minister briefly in the eighties.