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  THIS GIVES ONE AN OPPORTUNITY THE RELATIVE STANDING OF THE CONGRESS AND BJP. FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF TAMILIANS THE FOLLOWING WILL BE OFUTMOST INTEREST.

  TAMIL CAUSE – A PLAYFIELD AGAIN FOR CONGRESS-DELHI/SOUTH BLOCK?

  The piece ‘Congress-Delhi’s “greatest betrayal” of the Tamil cause’ in Merinews, 15 Jan 2009 exposed the double-talk tactics of Congress-Delhi to camouflage its partnership of the SL genocide and betrayal of its TN partners and Tamilians over this genocide right from the inception of the UPA rule in 2004.
  Double-talk tactics of Congress-Delhi

  To ascertain whether such tactics are continuing, the most recent official statements from Congress-Delhi sources are examined. These are: the President’s address to Parliament (Feb 2009), Chidambaram’s statement to the press on 15 February and Pranab’s post Colombo visit statement. Prima facie Pranab’s unhelpful Tamil cause stance hasn’t changed even in the President’s address to Parliament or Chidambaram’s statement. SL’s atrocities caused anguished horror in international capitals, but no such emotions are registered in Delhi and in any of these statements. Chidambaram unhelpfully limits his ‘promises (only) to arrange a dialogue between Sri Lanka and LTTE to stop hostilities in the island nation if the government suspended military operations against the Tigers and the outfit laid down arms’. Chidambaram claims that India (Congress-Delhi!) ‘cannot ask Sri Lanka to negotiate with a militant group, as its policy is not to negotiate with the militants even in Kashmir’. ( a strange new line for the AntiI-tamil crusade).

  Chidambaram be-smears India’s handling of Kashmiri militants

  By quoting the Kashmir precedent Chidambaram compromises India’s national interest damaging its moral standing in a dispute still in the boil internationally. Chidambaram equates India’s fight against Kashmiri militants with the world renowned brutal SL genocide to explain India’s awkwardness to request that SL negotiate with the Tamil militants when in fact Congress-Delhi is actively partnering (covertly or overtly) SL in the genocide. Congress was able to force SL to negotiate with the same Tamil militants during the IPKF days. . SL benefited from Indian supplies of (and funds to procure) lethal arms (cluster bombs, phosphorous bombs), commandos, equipment and above all super-class intelligence. Gruesome pictures of the atrocities caused by such Congress-Delhi supplies are in the public domain world-wide. Did India apply this principle to its other neighbours in particular when India acted as the mid-wife delivering the new Bangladesh, the Baluchi rebellion in Pakistan, Nepal and Myannar? Chidambaram’s keenness to please his SL patrons is extra-ordinary as it also carries a promise to carry this message ‘to every nook and corner of the state’. Isn’t this sufficient encouragement to SL to speed ahead with its genocide, finish off the Tamil resistance and bury the ‘Tamil cause’ nuisance for ever?

  Rajiv family’s revenge lust dictates Congress-Delhi’s anti-Tamil stance

  At the TN level the onus of elaborating on Pranab/Chidambaram messages fell on Thangabalu, the TNCC chief. The Hindu on 30 October 2008 quoting Thangabalu reported: ‘On charges that India was extending military aid to Sri Lanka, he said radars had been given to the island government only to protect its territory and not to use them against the Tamils”. The irony is that Indian radar operators were injured in SL front line positions. The simplistic “It was not possible to use a monitoring equipment to attack the Tamils,” hides away the critical importance of battle front intelligence in war. To dampen the TN Tamilian (labeled ‘LTTE supporters’) anger, Thangabalu says the Congress party will not forgive the Sri Lankan militant outfit for its role in the assassination of Rajiv and act against forces that create problems for Indian unity. Thangabalu’s ‘not forgive’ wow reveals a ‘revenge lust’ is un-Indian, not meeting even the basic Indian dharmic tradition or culture. Does the ‘revenge lust’ require the sacrifice of lives and sufferings of tens of thousands of Tamils to appease the soul of a killed Rajiv? Lives of Sikhs were sacrificed after Indra’s killing in a Rajiv/Congress inspired, SL style violence. Thangabalu’s statement has Rajiv family’s Congress-Delhi stamp of approval. Thangabalu, a TN politician suddenly foisted displacing sectarians in the TNCC leadership position has to ensure that Rajiv family ‘desires/passions’ are satiated as a priority. Echo’s of Thangabalu mantra are repeated by the likes of Chos, Jayalalithas, Subramania Swamys and sectarians in the Hindu group.

  Chidambaram’s tactic to channel Tamilian anger towards TN UPA partners

  The openly hostile anti ‘Tamil cause’ rhetoric from a sectarian clique that has a stranglehold in the TN Congress was revolting and angered mainstream Tamilians throughout the state. Chidambaram’s call is to divert Tamil anger away from Congress-Delhi towards its UPA TN partners. Hence the acts that undermine the TN UPA coalition partner and its decades long standing as champions of the Tamils.
  TNCC Congress chief’s laboured denial of Congress-Delhi’s overt/ covert support for the SL genocide was frustrated as more and more covert support for the SL genocide became overt with Congress-Delhi’s poor handling of the exposures on the radar issue (radar operators injured in front line positions). This undermined public confidence in what Congress-Delhi states or claims it did. Hence Congress’s expression of concern for Tamil civilians is the subject of ridicule. SL also relished leaking details of the support it receives from Congress-Delhi.
  Echoes of Pranab (Rajiv family’s proxy) and anti-Tamil cause rhetoric

  Thangabalu attempts to re-inforce Pranab’s anti Tamil/LTTE rhetoric (as reported on January 27) that ‘India possess no sympathy for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and its supporters ..the civilian Tamils must be prevented from becoming victims in Sri Lanka.’ smack a likeness to Chidambaram’s hard hearted avoidance of any civil expression of anguish for the suffering Tamil civilians in SL. Thangabalu’s ‘not forgive’ wow and Pranab’s adversarial ‘no sympathy’ for ..‘its (LTTE) supporters’ have much in common. These forewarn Tamilians who angered by Congress-Delhi’s support of SL genocide engage in massive protests across TN leaving totally isolated as outcasts in the TN polity. The logic behind Congress-Delhi’s adversarial anti-Tamil rhetoric is to get the Tamils/LTTE to surrender as a quick fix to kill off the Tamil resistance/LTTE and abandon the affected Tamils to cannibalistic extinction or eternal oppressive servitude.
  In the President’s message the call to Tamils/LTTE for talks seemingly repudiates the hawkish Pranab/Congress-Delhi approach. PM Singh’s pains were to soothe the hurt feelings of Tamilians and TN leaders. Pranab apparently speaking for and with authority of the Rajiv family uses his vociferous anti-Tamil/LTTE rhetoric to prove his credentials as a Rajiv family loyalists in Congress-Delhi. His close advisors are the same South Block sectarians who in the 1980’s turned Colombo into its playfield and dragged Rajiv into the messy 1987 Indo-SL Accord. Hence in Colombo (after other South Block officials visited) Pranab in self-prudence avoided any reference to the ceasefire call, the announced mission that PM Singh specifically committed, to the Tamlians/TN politicians deputing the task to Pranab. An aspiring Prime Minister, Pranab’s posture as an anti-Tamil hawk in Congress-Delhi does make sense that he administered PM Singh and the TN politicians a sharp rebuke first by unduly delaying his Colombo visit and later totally omitting the Tamilians/TN ceasefire call with Colombo. In effect under direction of the Rajiv family, PM Singh was overruled giving rise to posers over ‘who indeed is the de facto PM in Congress-Delhi today’. PM Singh was soon after in hospital.

  South Block returns to its 1980’s game plan – the anti-Tamil/Dravida crusade

  Hence Pranab’s strident uncompromising anti-Tamil/LTTE message is not in sync with the tenor of the even handed message in the President’s address calling on both the SL regime and Tamils/LTTE to the negotiating table. This was to re-assure the TN-UPA partners whose standing as role model Tamil champions was being surreptitiously undermined by the Rajiv family loyalists (and the South Block). Other pro-Tamil cause groups emerged to pose a threat to the TN UPA partner’s reputed role as champions of Tamils, earned after decades of struggle and sacrifice. That role as Tamil champions was becoming untenable when Congress-Delhi its principal UPA partner was partnering the SL genocide. Pranab, a Rajiv family loyalist and the sectarian Southern Block had much in common as recipients of lavish graces and much more from SL. Congress-Delhi inherited this deal style polity as a Rajiv legacy. SL’s investments began to bear fruit when Congress returned to power in 2004 with the Rajiv family’s stranglehold of it intact. As long as Congress-Delhi is captive to the Rajiv family, Congress-Delhi’s stance is unlikely to change making Tamilians angrier and the position of UPA TN partners more and more untenable.
  The re-emergence of the influence of the sectarian South Block (with a deep dislike of mainstream Tamilians) specifically explains Congress-Delhi’s hawkish anti-Tamil stance. Pranab’s words ‘its (LTTE) supporters’ openly forewarns mainstream Tamilians and politicians against involvement in the protests. Pranab who did not press for a ceasefire returned with a deceptive ‘fire free zones’ (Chidambaram lauds it) kite camouflaging Congress-Delhi’s call to the Tamils/LTTE to surrender quickly. The manner in which the ‘fire free zone’ proposal was conveyed (no courtesy call, except a memo sent days after) to CM Karunanithi, a revered elder statesman and a champion of the Tamils was least dignified snub. Such precedent setting Pranab’s conduct approved by the Rajiv family encourages political players in SL (Fonsekas) to get away unscathed after insulting the TN politicians as ‘jokers’. These led a leading analyst (Nateri Adigal) to explain why ‘Tamil Nadu (is) being forced to go the Eelam way’.
  Tamils face a most gruesome carnage and the hard hearted Congress-Delhi applauds

  The gruesome and revolting carnage in SL stirs the conscience of humanity. This reaction is totally absent amongst the Congress-Delhi crowd. Instead the Rajiv killing is flaunted to condemn the entire Tamil community to its present fate. Sectarians in the established media in Chennai brutally character assassinated Rajiv over the Bofors scandal until his very death; yet this cabal’s mournful outpouring for the same Rajiv i condones the killings of Tamils in such numbers to serve as sacrificial lambs to soothe the soul they seem to deeply mourn for. The sectarian cabal can no longer pretend to mirror the views, feeling and aspirations of mainstream Tamilians. Congress in TN after Kamaraj has no mainstream leader of his caliber that the sectarian’s strangle-hold has reduced it electorally to a non-entity in TN. TNCC still strives to exploit the Tamil cause by climbing the Tamil cause bandwagon of the TN non Congress parties wherever possible, however much Tamilians resent this harshly and publicly.

  Electoral arithmetic – need for non Congress parties to re-think partnering in a Congress UPA

  DMK lost in TN (1991 elections) in the immediate aftermath of Rajiv’s killing; but nationally votes cast for Congress also did indeed fall. The over-rated Rajiv factor is unlikely to restore the electoral prospects of the Congress though the Rajiv’s killing is continued to justify India’s support for a brutal genocide on the Tamils. This turns away more and more Tamilians from the Congress. India lost more adored Indian leaders also killed. Indra’s killing led to a surge in electoral support (49.8per cent) for the Congress India wide. Rajiv was deeply tainted by scandals that after Rajiv, Congress never recovered its customary electoral support India wide; this hovers at a meager lower 23 percent.

  The Tamil cause is not totally lost; a non-Congress Delhi is likely to re-vitalise it. TN UPA partners to keep their championship of the Tamils record unblemished; distancing from those partnering the SL genocide of the Tamils is a rational alternative. To spruce up its tired image and emerge stronger going back to its 1960’s Dravidian movement roots is urgent for a DMK that has to face far more serious threats from a heavily rearmed and hawkish SL (thanks to Congress-Delhi) that is unlikely to stop at merely harassing or taking its hapless fishermen captives. The threats are greater should a Congress-Delhi in the Centre again ignore Tamilian sensitivities to betray TN and instead further court an over-armed SL.

  V S Subramaniam on March 10th, 2009

 

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