India: Tamil Nadu Election-The verdict is a vote against the LTTE & a vote for India’s Sri Lanka policy

May 16th, 2009 admin Posted in What the papers say No Comments »

In the general election in India, the ruling Congress and its allies has scored a resounding victory. In the state of Tamil Nadu, all the pro LTTE candidates lost except Thirumavalavan who choose to depart from his past and pledged loyalty to the Chief Minister Mr. M. Karunanithy.

V.Gopalasamy

V.Gopalasamy

According to the IANS report “The losers included MDMK’s passionately pro-Tiger chief Vaiko, who in 1989 made a dramatic secret trip to Sri Lanka’s north to meet Tamil Tiger chief Velupillai Prabhakaran”

IANS also pointed that the “vote count in Puducherry and Tamil Nadu showed that all seven candidates of the PMK and three of the four MDMK candidates had lost”

Full report of the IANS… Read the rest of this entry »

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