Aanadasangaree Says : TNA take Indians for a ride By Our Political correspondent

The Tamil United Liberation Front leader Veerasingam Anandasangaree lambasted the Tamil National Alliance as a bunch of bluffs who were trying to hoodwink the LTTE and trying to take the Indians for a ride.

The TULF leader commenting on the issue of deporting the TNA Parliamentarian M.K. Sivajilingam from Tamil Nadu told the Sunday Observer that the TNA members were a bunch of blufts and they were manipulated by the barrel of the gun of the LTTE.

"M. K. Sivajilingam had made his childish comments supporting the LTTE in Tamil Nadu. If he and his other TNA colleagues were genuinely concerned about the three hundred thousand internally displaced people in the Vanni they should urge the LTTE to stop preventing those innocent civilians moving into safer areas.

But instead of voicing for those civilians trapped in the hands of the LTTE the TNA is trying to hoodwink the outfit with false propaganda in Tamil Nadu and abroad. Therefore the decision to deport Sivajilingam by the Indian Government is timely and appropriate," Anandasangaree said.

Commenting further on the very recent reports he received from the Vanni he said that the internally displaced People in the region were suffering terribly due to heavy torrential rains and they could hardly sleep in the nights to keep vigil to protect themselves from serpents and other venomous insects."

This is the time where the snakes in Wanni multiply due to rainy conditions. I have even received reports that the anti venom drugs are the need of the hour in the region where several people have been stung by snakes and of them have died without proper medication," he said.

Commenting on the intended visit of Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukerjee to Colombo this week, Anandasangaree said that the Indian Foreign Minister should come out hard on the LTTE insisting that the outfit must give up its fights and enter into talks.

"The Democratic Tamil National Alliance headed by the TULF has already suggested a solution based on the Indian model.

Therefore the Indian leadership must help in expediting an early political solution to the Lankan crisis in order to ensure the safety of the Tamil people and determine their political rights," Sangaree further added.