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Dravida Peravai Policy

 Dravida Peravai over years discussed in public what should be India's foreign policy towards Ealam Tamils. We brought out a white paper which was loaded in a website : http://www/banners/interstitial.html?http://www.dravidam.tamilzone.com/  , that is no more accessible now. Fortunately in other sources our views could be found, and with gratitude we provide the link: http://www/banners/interstitial.html?http://www.tamilcanadian.com/pageview.php?ID=149&SID=40

We have within the parameters permissible in Indian Constitution had raised the issue of Ealam Tamils right from 1978. Not even once we faltered in our footsteps. Nor did we waver in our approach. To my memory the first public expression of mine on Ealam is likely to be the article written in "Nam Naadu" Official party organ of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam edited by Dr.Kalaignar M.Karunanithi on 5 th February 1978.[ From archives if we search we may even get a proof of earlier date.] 

There was a Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in Ceylon and its General Secretary A.S.Manavai Thambi was exiled and lived in Tamil Nadu. There was a time wherever Tamils went, whichever land they choose to live, a separate political party titled Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam will come up in that soil, which will only have emotional and not political ties with Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam of India. We come from that ideological background, hence on all occasions we have raised voice of support for Ealam Tamils. The article" Ezha Thamizharum Kozhai Thamizharum" praises the brave Tamils of Ealam and condemns the cowards of Tamil Nadu. This was a time I was in Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. During emergency in India, a handful wrote in the official organs of DMK, of course Dr.Kalaignar fought emergency with his valiant pen. Among the handful, I am one.

A SEPARATE TAMIL STATE ONLY SOLUTION TO LANKAN PROBLEM: SUNDAY PIONEER

Varanasi:9 July 2000: The General Secretary of Dravida Peravai party N.Nandhivarman said that a separate state for the Tamils was the only solution for the prevailing Srilankan problem.

Talking to reporters at Paradkar bhavan here on Friday, the party supremo said that the party did not support the path adopted by LTTE in Srilanka as it was not in the interests of Tamils. However he said that the party supported the demands of the Tamils in Srilanka and felt that separate Tamil Ealam was the only solution to the Srilankan problem.

N.Nandhivarman, who formed the party after his divorce from DMK, said that his party did not support the LTTE because the latter could not come to power even if the demands of the Tamils in Srilanka were accepted. He said it would be a democratic forum which would come to power in such a situation.

Though Dravida Peravai is an ally of Samata party, Mr.Nandhivarman  and other leaders of the party came here to attend the proposed national convention of Samata party here on Saturday.

Expressing serious concerns over the condition of Tamils in Srilanka, Mr.Nandhivarman said that the voice of Tamil members of Parliament in Srilanka was always crushed and the Srilankan government never paid any serious attention to the problems of the Tamils.Launching a scathing attack on the foreign policy of the Indian Government, Mr.Nandhivarman said that its foreign policy was weak and unclear, especially in the case of Srilanka. He said that the party would present its paper on the Tamils issue of Srilanka at the proposed National convention of Samata party and urge the latter to press the government in this connection.However, he said that the Indian government should not meddle in the internal matters of Srilanka.

In reply to a query Mr.Nandhivarman said Norway might play a vital role as a mediator. He also demanded that the Indian jurisdiction in the sea areas, especially Kacchativu islands, should be redefined.He said due to some confusion many Indian fishermen became victims of Srilankan attacks. He said that in this direction his party had given a "Sethu samudram Yojana' which was also included in the election manifesto of the National Democratic Alliance.The party supremo further said it was shocking that though the matter was in the poll manifesto of NDA, the BJP led NDA government did not do anything to implement the plan.

In a reply to another query, he said that his party fully supported the continuation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir. Taking a safe stand that there should be an open debate on it and nothing should be done behind the curtain

[courtesy: Sunday Pioneer, the Sunday paper of THE PIONEER, Lucknow edition in its 136 th year of publication]

During the press meeting at Varanasi press club, repeatedly I was asked do you support LTTE ? My answer was I support Tamil Ealam. They went on asking would not supporting Tamil Ealam be indirectly supporting LTTE ?. I said no. Press pressed for explanations. I told Nethaji's Indian National Army fought for Indian independence, did they come to power in India? During World War II, whole Britons supported Winston Churchill and once War was over, they did not need Churchill. Similarly now it is War and LTTE is fighting a War, after independence people may choose a democratic alternative. Hence supporting EALAM will in no way be construed as supporting LTTE.

Not satisfied press tried to extract from my mouth that I support LTTE. I jokingly said our policy is LTTE, to Love Thamizh Tamils and Everyone. That joke is the source to today's web paragraph title.

RECOGNIZE GROUND REALITIES IN SRILANKA: 

THE HINDUSTAN TIMES

[Varanasi , July 7-2000-HT Correspondent]

Dravida Peravai, the south Indian political party born after the split in the DMK, urged the Union Government to frame the right policy that will not alienate Indian Tamils from the National mainstream and to recognize the ground realities in srilanka by accepting the Tamils legitimate aspiration for freedom.

" Tamil Ealam's struggle has entered the final and crucial phase. Let India rise up to the occasion" Mr.N.Nandhivarman, the general secretary of Pondicherry based party, said.

An associate party of Samata party, Dravida Peravai,an ardent supporter of Tamil Ealam, urged the Prime Minister for a proper evaluation of the past to arrive at the right policy towards Tamils freedom struggle. It brought out a white paper on the ethnic conflict in Srilanka in May, detailing the ethnic cleansing by Sinhalese since 1983 and the plight of Tamils in the island.

Talking to media persons here today, Mr.Nandhivarman said India did not have a clear policy for Srilanka." We do support the Tamils in the island and do believe that separate state for Tamils could be the best solution to the ethnic conflict there", he said.

He said "Altogether 23 major initiatives, to bring forth peace in Srilanka since 1957 till today, have failed to yield any result. "

"Yet Indian bureaucracy is trying to mislead the Government stating that a political solution is possible. I wonder what new proposal India has which forms part of any of the 23 initiatives ?' he added.

" India that cannot resolve the Kashmir issue for that matter the question of sub-nationalism within its territory is now gearing itself to commit another faux pas in its foreign policy. Dravida Peravai urges the Union Government to be clear in its goals, sure of its approach and have a clear cut solution in mind before taking the plunge" Mr.Nandhivarman said

[courtesy: The Hindustan Times July 7,2000]

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