Pitying ADMK ministers for repeatedly slandering the DMK and him to protect their positions, DMK President Kalaignar listed the betrayals committed by Jayalalitha on Eelam Tamils, Cauvery and Mullaiperiyar issues, although unwillingly because of the ministers’ provocation.
Kalaignar, in his epistle to Party cadre on April 9, referred to the incidents in the Assembly on the previous day when the ministers one after the other unnecessarily accused the DMK and him of betraying on the issues of Eelam Tamils, Cauvery and Mullaiperiyar and refusing to permit the DMK members to reply them. He pitied the ADMK ministers for speaking like this to please their leadership and protect their positions. They had no patience to hear alternative opinion and evict the members.
This is not the practice in the Assembly alone, even in the speech of the CM read out by a minister at the joint conference of state CMs and chief justices of high courts held in New Delhi on 7.4.2013, it was stated, “Due to the sustained struggle made by me (Jayalalitha) for over twenty years for the rights of Tamil Nadu in Cauvery issue, at last following the order of the Supreme Court, the final award of the Cauvery Tribunal was notified in the Central gazette”. Kalaignar said he was reminded of the saying in villages, “Ghee oozing out of ragi”. The ministers also babbled in the Assembly without knowing anything in totality and accuse the DMK without any basis.
Kalaignar said he was penning this epistle to explain “To whom betrayal belongs? Who continuously betrayed the interests of Tamils and Tamil race?” and listed the following betrayals of Jayalalitha:
v When he issued an appeal for cooperation for the one day general strike on 23.4.2009, Jayalalitha said “the war in Sri Lanka now waged by Rajapaksa is not against Tamils; only against the LTTE”.
v When Eelam Tamils were killed in Sri Lanka, Jayalalitha said on 17.1.2009 that “collateral loss of life of innocent people in wars is normal”.
v When all parties together conducted meeting at the secretariat, Jayalalitha announced boycott of that meeting.
v When a huge human chain was organised in Chennai in 2009 for Eelam Tamils she described it as ‘dubious drama’.
v When all political parties led by him went to Delhi to demand the Prime Minister for the Centre to make efforts to get permanent ceasefire in Lanka, she boycotted it.
v Even now Jayalalitha calls LTTE as enemies.
v The DMK lost power twice for Eelam Tamils, himself and Prof. K. Anbazhagan resigned as MLAs, and Now the DMK withdrew from UPA. Are they betrayals, or those like Jayalalitha who criticise it are betrayers?
v She adopted a resolution in the Assembly that no one from the proscribed LTTE should be allowed to enter India.
v When a resolution was adopted at the all party meeting for immediate cease fire in Lanka, in a statement released by he Jayalalitha said,” On looking at that resolution people of Tamil Nadu suspect whether Karunanidhi is working in support of the LTTE. It is strange that the five time Chief Minister Karunanidhi has not understood that India had no power to stop the ongoing civil war in Sri Lanka. If India interfered with the internal affairs of Sri Lanka, then it would give an opportunity for other countries”.
v On Cauvery issue, she said on 21.3.1991 that “Even if the award of the tribunal is received, TN would receive Cauvery water only if Karnataka on their own opened the dam.
v When the then Union Minister for water resources V.C.Shukla on 9.6.1992 wrote a letter to her when she was the CM asking for her consent to form a committee for implementing interim award of the Tribunal, she replied only after nine months on 30.3.1993.
v Even though the Tribunal released interim award in 1991, she as the CM till 1996 did not obtain 205 tmc water as per the interim award even for one year.
v When Cauvery River Authority was set up due to the efforts of the DMK, Jayalalitha told the Assembly on 2,4,2002 that it was a non-functional authority and without accepting it they (ADMK) withdrew from the BJP alliance. Thus she called the authority as ‘toothless wonder’ and ‘non-functional’.
v In a statement on 21.9.1998, she said “The Cauvery River Authority headed by the Prime Minister is a very big fraud perpetrated on the farmers of the Cauvery delta in Tamil Nadu”.
v In the Cabinet meeting on 21.6.2002, Jayalalitha took the decision not to participate in the meetings of CRA.
v Jayalalitha said that she had no faith on the PM, the chairman of the CRA, and after the Supreme Court pulled her up for the comment, she had to withdraw it and regret.
v Commenting on the ADMK alliance with the BJP, the then Prime Minister Vajpayee said on 22.8.1999 that “The period of alliance with the ADMK was the most distressing period in my political life” and “ Even on the day before the Independence Day, Jayalalitha threatened to topple the government. But we did not budge to her blackmail”. Is it not betrayal of trust by her?
v Above all, even in her handwritten letter to the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi she said about MGR, who brought and introduced her to politics, that he could not tolerate her progress; “Can there be a greater blatant betrayal than that?” Kalaignar asked.
“I don’t really like to write about all these matters and cause delicate situation for others. But the painful truth is that some ministers on their own provoke us to write these by their speeches everyday in the TN Assembly”, Kalaignar said.
TESO members to meet envoys of CMAG countries
DMK President and TESO Chairman Kalaignar M.Karunanidhi said members of the Tamil Eelam Supporters Organisation would meet the Ambassadors of countries in the Commonwealth Ministerial action Group (CMAG) to press the demand that the next Commonwealth meet should not be held in Sri Lanka.
In a statement of April 6, Kalaignar reiterated his demand that the venue of Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting due to be held in Colombo in November be shifted to some other country.
He said the DMK had already adopted a resolution expressing its objection to hold the conference in Sri Lanka. As the CMAG meeting was to be held in London on April 26, TESO members would meet and ask Ambassadors of the countries now part of the group to take a firm decision against Sri Lanka.
Kalaignar, in his epistle to Party cadre on April 9, referred to the incidents in the Assembly on the previous day when the ministers one after the other unnecessarily accused the DMK and him of betraying on the issues of Eelam Tamils, Cauvery and Mullaiperiyar and refusing to permit the DMK members to reply them. He pitied the ADMK ministers for speaking like this to please their leadership and protect their positions. They had no patience to hear alternative opinion and evict the members.
This is not the practice in the Assembly alone, even in the speech of the CM read out by a minister at the joint conference of state CMs and chief justices of high courts held in New Delhi on 7.4.2013, it was stated, “Due to the sustained struggle made by me (Jayalalitha) for over twenty years for the rights of Tamil Nadu in Cauvery issue, at last following the order of the Supreme Court, the final award of the Cauvery Tribunal was notified in the Central gazette”. Kalaignar said he was reminded of the saying in villages, “Ghee oozing out of ragi”. The ministers also babbled in the Assembly without knowing anything in totality and accuse the DMK without any basis.
Kalaignar said he was penning this epistle to explain “To whom betrayal belongs? Who continuously betrayed the interests of Tamils and Tamil race?” and listed the following betrayals of Jayalalitha:
v When he issued an appeal for cooperation for the one day general strike on 23.4.2009, Jayalalitha said “the war in Sri Lanka now waged by Rajapaksa is not against Tamils; only against the LTTE”.
v When Eelam Tamils were killed in Sri Lanka, Jayalalitha said on 17.1.2009 that “collateral loss of life of innocent people in wars is normal”.
v When all parties together conducted meeting at the secretariat, Jayalalitha announced boycott of that meeting.
v When a huge human chain was organised in Chennai in 2009 for Eelam Tamils she described it as ‘dubious drama’.
v When all political parties led by him went to Delhi to demand the Prime Minister for the Centre to make efforts to get permanent ceasefire in Lanka, she boycotted it.
v Even now Jayalalitha calls LTTE as enemies.
v The DMK lost power twice for Eelam Tamils, himself and Prof. K. Anbazhagan resigned as MLAs, and Now the DMK withdrew from UPA. Are they betrayals, or those like Jayalalitha who criticise it are betrayers?
v She adopted a resolution in the Assembly that no one from the proscribed LTTE should be allowed to enter India.
v When a resolution was adopted at the all party meeting for immediate cease fire in Lanka, in a statement released by he Jayalalitha said,” On looking at that resolution people of Tamil Nadu suspect whether Karunanidhi is working in support of the LTTE. It is strange that the five time Chief Minister Karunanidhi has not understood that India had no power to stop the ongoing civil war in Sri Lanka. If India interfered with the internal affairs of Sri Lanka, then it would give an opportunity for other countries”.
v On Cauvery issue, she said on 21.3.1991 that “Even if the award of the tribunal is received, TN would receive Cauvery water only if Karnataka on their own opened the dam.
v When the then Union Minister for water resources V.C.Shukla on 9.6.1992 wrote a letter to her when she was the CM asking for her consent to form a committee for implementing interim award of the Tribunal, she replied only after nine months on 30.3.1993.
v Even though the Tribunal released interim award in 1991, she as the CM till 1996 did not obtain 205 tmc water as per the interim award even for one year.
v When Cauvery River Authority was set up due to the efforts of the DMK, Jayalalitha told the Assembly on 2,4,2002 that it was a non-functional authority and without accepting it they (ADMK) withdrew from the BJP alliance. Thus she called the authority as ‘toothless wonder’ and ‘non-functional’.
v In a statement on 21.9.1998, she said “The Cauvery River Authority headed by the Prime Minister is a very big fraud perpetrated on the farmers of the Cauvery delta in Tamil Nadu”.
v In the Cabinet meeting on 21.6.2002, Jayalalitha took the decision not to participate in the meetings of CRA.
v Jayalalitha said that she had no faith on the PM, the chairman of the CRA, and after the Supreme Court pulled her up for the comment, she had to withdraw it and regret.
v Commenting on the ADMK alliance with the BJP, the then Prime Minister Vajpayee said on 22.8.1999 that “The period of alliance with the ADMK was the most distressing period in my political life” and “ Even on the day before the Independence Day, Jayalalitha threatened to topple the government. But we did not budge to her blackmail”. Is it not betrayal of trust by her?
v Above all, even in her handwritten letter to the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi she said about MGR, who brought and introduced her to politics, that he could not tolerate her progress; “Can there be a greater blatant betrayal than that?” Kalaignar asked.
“I don’t really like to write about all these matters and cause delicate situation for others. But the painful truth is that some ministers on their own provoke us to write these by their speeches everyday in the TN Assembly”, Kalaignar said.
TESO members to meet envoys of CMAG countries
DMK President and TESO Chairman Kalaignar M.Karunanidhi said members of the Tamil Eelam Supporters Organisation would meet the Ambassadors of countries in the Commonwealth Ministerial action Group (CMAG) to press the demand that the next Commonwealth meet should not be held in Sri Lanka.
In a statement of April 6, Kalaignar reiterated his demand that the venue of Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting due to be held in Colombo in November be shifted to some other country.
He said the DMK had already adopted a resolution expressing its objection to hold the conference in Sri Lanka. As the CMAG meeting was to be held in London on April 26, TESO members would meet and ask Ambassadors of the countries now part of the group to take a firm decision against Sri Lanka.
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