An
opinion and advice by a concerned Tamil
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What is needed for the Tamil people is a political leadership that will articulate a nation building process and lead them honestly without causing disharmony. In the blood soaked and skeletons strewed lands of the north and east, people are struggling to emerge out of the heavy odds facing them.
(
November 02, 2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) In the recent past, Tamil
National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian Suresh Premachandran is showing all the
signs of a frustrated man. Unable to
deal with the internal strives internally within the TNA, he is using the
Diaspora Tamil media to discharge his campaign against the TNA leadership.
Disparaging
claims are being made on all kinds of issues and there is a section of the
conditioned Tamil Diaspora that is thriving in his hypes in supporting him.
Some
of the outbursts he publicly make are internal matters that should have been
privately dealt within the TNA to avoid
unwanted debates in the public, leading to diversion of resources for the TNA
that has to emerge as a much focussed and a responsible party.
Suresh
Premachandran’s lack of interest in engaging in wider issues and limiting his
politics to mere publicity seeking has become his preoccupation that is
endangering the path of unity and the responsible way forward for the Tamils.
He has still not moved away from the apologetic pre-war politics of
authoritarianism and is taking cover under opportunism, slumber and the
parochial inward tendency.
His
personal résumé will tell his attitude
to politics is limited to quarrelling in a scale that he cultivated in his
school going age. He has become a politician reflecting selfish opportunism and
there is nothing there to vouch for his educational or entrepreneurial skills. Hate appears to be his motto and even
with his progressing age, he is unable to change track with a mature sense. His
only business experience comes from running a bus hiring business with the siphoned
off from his EPRLF military training funds of the early 1980’s.
Suresh
Premachandran’s ambition to become the
leader of the Tamil people by his hate campaign in the media will have negative
influence for him. Standing for principles are important for a politician.
Whilst claiming to stand for this position and subverting it by petty conduct
will not earn the goodwill in the wider Tamil society.
In
a political party, there will be differing opinions and personality clashes
that will entrap the politician to prove himself a person beyond insignificant
mindset. Any ambitious politician will move away from the narrow minded
thinking to score points on trivial issues.
What
is needed for the Tamil people is a political leadership that will articulate a
nation building process and lead them honestly without causing disharmony. In
the blood soaked and skeletons strewed lands of the north and east, people are
struggling to emerge out of the heavy odds facing them. Politicians like
Premachandran must go beyond and engage in the nation building process without
burying the Tamil people in the deeper pains for their petty gains.
