When Wimal Weerawansa said that C. V.
Vignesvaran was chosen as the TNA candidate for the post of Chief Minister in the Northern Province provincial council
by two embassies nobody expected the latter to confirm it. Vignesvaran is not
new to politics as he has made political speeches at least from the day he
became a judge in the Supreme Court. People including Judges of the Higher
Courts have a Chinthanaya and their speeches, writings and all other activities
are based on the particular Chinthanaya possessed by them. This applies to
artists as well and directors of cinema are not free from their Chinthanaya as
could be asserted from what is stated about the film “Flying Fish”. Vignesvaran
has never been a so called unbiased person in politics and it is hilarious to
listen to him dismissing Wimal Weerawansa’s statement as a statement made by a
politician. Vignesvaran by that dismissal pretends to be above politics and
that he is not a politician. He is now involved in party politics, and it is
clear that by dismissing outright Wimal Weerawansa’s statement as that of a
politician, Vignesvaran has shown that he has matured as a politician. In
politics as well as in giving evidence before a court of justice hiding the
truth is a cardinal principle practiced by those who are involved.
It was not only Wimal Weerawansa who
knew this story as some other politicians including cabinet ministers were
aware of what was happening behind the screen. I myself came to be aware of the
story from another source but it was Weerawansa who went public with the
information he had. It appears that there has been influence by other countries
to nominate Wignesvaran as the Chief Ministerial candidate of the TNA at the
Northern Province provincial council elections if we are to believe the
following report that appeared in the Daily News of 23rd of July
2013. “The two Tamil newspapers Thinakural and Virakesari in their lead stories
yesterday (July 22) attributed this statement to TNA Leader R. Sampanthan, who
had said that they were compelled to make the decision regarding Vigneshwaran
on the request of some foreign countries and organizations, ‘as the nominee has
international support.’ The two newspapers quoted Sampanthan as saying that he
decided to clear the air about the selection of the candidate as there were
‘false rumours being floated to tarnish the party’s image.’ In a bid to
persuade the TNA members over the rationality of appointing Vigneswaran as TNA
chief ministerial candidate, R Sampanthan said some foreign countries and
organizations compelled the TNA to take this decision. When the decision was
taken, MPs Senadhirajah, Sumanthiran, Sridharan, Sarabavanan, and Selvaraja
were also present”.
One does not have to be a so called
political analyst to discover that India is one of the foreign countries. It is
not a master stroke of Sampanthan to nominate Vignesvaran and it only indicates
how much TNA politics is influenced by India with the blessings of the western
countries led by USA at present with England behind every movement on the chess
board. India has no love for the Sinhala Buddhists who preserved and protected Bududahama over a period of two thousand
and six hundred years while it was discarded in India. The Brahmins never liked
the Anathmavadi Bududahama and it was
not only the Muslims who are responsible for the final overthrow of Bududahama and Budusasuna from India. The Vedic Brahmins who are Athmavadins have no love for the Sinhala Buddhists
and the Brahmins are responsible for the insertion of Athmavadi concepts into what may be called the Bududahama of the third council or sangayana. India which has
no ability or desire to protect Budusasuna
in that country is only paying lip service as far as the protection of
Buddhists, Bhikkus and places of worship in India important for the Buddhists
is concerned. India is not a so called non aligned country and with the support
of the west it is maneuvering to become the hegemonic force in South Asia.
India is using Tamil Nadu to achieve what it wants, though the message sent is
that it is Tamil Nadu that influences India to adopt a certain policy towards
Sri Lanka.
It should be clear that India over the
years has been attempting to do in Sri Lanka what it has done to Sikkim, Assam
and other parts of the subcontinent, failing of which it will make Sri Lanka
another Bhutan. India has no love for the Tamils as such but it uses the so
called Tamil problem in Sri Lanka to achieve its ambitions. India wants
politicians in Sri Lanka to do as they want but it is clear that though there
are some Sinhala politicians and many Tamil politicians who would meekly obey
the Indian Kautilyans, the Mahinda Rajapakse government is not prepared to do
so. The Indian government does not like Mawai Senadhiraja as the Chief Ministerial candidate as he is
believed to have had connections with the LTTE. It is not a secret that
Prabhakaran did not bow down to Delhi and India did not approve his attitude.
India wants politicians of the “caliber” of Vignesvaran who would defend India
using queer logic. The following expert from an interview of Vignesvaran
published in the Daily Mirror on the 22nd of July 2013 reveals the
character of the politician.
“Q: Other reasons championed by those who call to repeal the
powers of 13A is that it is not constitutionally valid and neither is it
legally binding due to a referendum not being held and India failing to uphold
their part of the Indo-Lanka accord. What are your comments on such claims?
A: A referendum was not necessary because it was with regard to the North and East and since the Supreme Court ordered the demerging of the two provinces, that argument is not viable. Moreover, the justification of India failing to uphold their side of the agreement is also void because that is what they did in 2009. If not for the support of the international community, particularly India, Sri Lanka could not have got rid of the LTTE so swiftly. So India, on its part although it was not done in the 80s, it was done in 2009 and therefore, I don’t believe it is a ground to set aside 13A, which takes root from the international agreement between India and Sri Lanka. You cannot play the fool with such agreements and without the permission of India; it is not possible for Sri Lanka to act unilaterally.”
This is what the Indo Lanka Accord has to say on the
referendum. “2.3 There will be a
Referendum on or before 31st December 1988 to enable the people of the Eastern
Province to decide whether:
a)
The Eastern Province should remain linked with the Northern Province as one
administrative unit, and continue to be governed together with the Northern
Province as specified in para 2.2 or:
b)
The eastern province should constitute a separate administrative unit having
its own distinct provincial council with a separate Governer, Chief Minister
and Board of Ministers.
The
president may, at his discretion, decide to postpone such a referendum. ” I would not say that the Indo Lanka Accord is
null and void because a referendum was not held as claimed by some others,
though I have other reasons to believe that the Accord is now defunct. The
Accord says the President of Sri Lanka could decide to postpone the referendum
at his discretion. However it is clear that Vignesvaran is using something else
in order to defend India. The decision
of the Supreme Court came long after, and the argument of the former judge is
not valid with respect to the validity of the Accord to say the least. Vignesvaran
is undoubtedly a seasoned politician. (To
be continued)
Nalin De Silva
24-07-2013