07-24-2004, 10:17 PM
India deports pro-LTTE Lankan Tamil MP
PK Balachanddran
Colombo, July 24
India has deported a pro-LTTE Tamil member of the Sri Lankan parliament, who had come to attend a conference organised by the pro-LTTE Tamil Nadu leader, P Nedumaran, in Bangalore on Sunday.
Official sources in Chennai told Hindustan Times over the phone that Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP, MK Eelaventhan, who had arrived in Bangalore by a Sri Lankan Airlines flight on Saturday, was deported.
The case of the other MP and participant in the conference, Up Country Peoples' Front (UPF) leader P Chandrasekharan, had not been decided, the sources said. He had arrived in Chennai by a Jet Airways flight. The Union Home Ministry is believed to be looking into his case.
The case of Eelaventhan was clearer because he had been deported from India earlier, for working for the LTTE in Tamil Nadu in disregard of the ban on that outfit. When Eelaventhan's plans to attend the conference in Bangalore came to be known, the security agencies were on the 'look out' for him, the sources said.
The Bangalore conference is being organised by the "Ulaga Tamil Peramaippu" or World Tamil Federation, and the listed speakers are mostly drawn from the pro-LTTE lobby in Tamil Nadu.The poet laureate of the LTTE, Kasi Ananthan, is to be honoured with the title, "Ulaga Perun Tamizhar" (Great World Tamilian). Ananthan is a resident of Chennai.
In the invitation card of the conference, the Sri Lankan Tamil MPs have been described as Members of Parliament of "Tamil Eelam" and not "Sri Lanka". Such a description is significant in the light of the fact that the partition of Sri Lanka to form an independent Tamil Eelam is the preferred goal of the LTTE.
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PK Balachanddran
Colombo, July 24
India has deported a pro-LTTE Tamil member of the Sri Lankan parliament, who had come to attend a conference organised by the pro-LTTE Tamil Nadu leader, P Nedumaran, in Bangalore on Sunday.
Official sources in Chennai told Hindustan Times over the phone that Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP, MK Eelaventhan, who had arrived in Bangalore by a Sri Lankan Airlines flight on Saturday, was deported.
The case of the other MP and participant in the conference, Up Country Peoples' Front (UPF) leader P Chandrasekharan, had not been decided, the sources said. He had arrived in Chennai by a Jet Airways flight. The Union Home Ministry is believed to be looking into his case.
The case of Eelaventhan was clearer because he had been deported from India earlier, for working for the LTTE in Tamil Nadu in disregard of the ban on that outfit. When Eelaventhan's plans to attend the conference in Bangalore came to be known, the security agencies were on the 'look out' for him, the sources said.
The Bangalore conference is being organised by the "Ulaga Tamil Peramaippu" or World Tamil Federation, and the listed speakers are mostly drawn from the pro-LTTE lobby in Tamil Nadu.The poet laureate of the LTTE, Kasi Ananthan, is to be honoured with the title, "Ulaga Perun Tamizhar" (Great World Tamilian). Ananthan is a resident of Chennai.
In the invitation card of the conference, the Sri Lankan Tamil MPs have been described as Members of Parliament of "Tamil Eelam" and not "Sri Lanka". Such a description is significant in the light of the fact that the partition of Sri Lanka to form an independent Tamil Eelam is the preferred goal of the LTTE.
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