Now, Wiggy seeks India’s support for his ‘struggle’

By Dinasena Rathugamage

Thamizh Makkal Thesiya Kootani (TMTK) Jaffna District MP C. V. Wigneswaran says he will seek India’s help to win the rights of Tamil people in the North and the East.

Addressing the media in Kilinochchi on Saturday (5) MP Wingeswaran said that his inaugural speech in Parliament on the historic supremacy of Tamil language and Tamil people had marked the beginning of his campaign for winning the rights of Tamil people in the North and the East.

“Tamils too have rights. The Sinhala Buddhist forces have no right to create governments of their own for them alone. Therefore, I commenced this struggle against the deprivation of Tamils of their rights. I continue this path of struggle with the intention of ensuring the protection of rights of Tamils.”

MP Wigneswaran said that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi too had admitted the fact that the rights of Tamils in Sri Lanka should be protected. Prime Minister Modi had stated that the 13th Amendment to the Constitution alone could not solve the problems of Tamils in Sri Lanka, Wigneswaran said.

Quoting from several speeches and statements by the Indian Prime Minister at the Kilinochchi meeting, MP Wigneswaran said that India would stand for the rights of Tamils in Sri Lanka.

MP Wigneswaran said that he hoped that other Tamil political parties would extend their unreserved support for his struggle for the cause of Tamil people. The rights of Tamils in the North and the East should be ensured and all Tamil parties must join that struggle. Such an agreement among the Tamil parties could be reached with the assistance of India, the MP said.

The incumbent government too would not help realise the aspirations of the Tamil people or redress their grievances.

MP Wigneswaran said that there was a rumour being spread in the South that some Tamil MPs had pledged their support to Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s government. True representatives of Tamil people would not make such stupid decisions, he said.