Karunanidhi refutes Gotabhaya’s remarks
August 9, 2011 04:30 pm
Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa was “totally wrong” in his comment that all those in Tamil Nadu who supported the Sri Lankan Tamil cause were doing it for political mileage, DMK president M. Karunanidhi said on Tuesday.
“If Gotabaya thinks DMK is doing it for political mileage he is totally wrong as the party has been fighting for the cause for long. He knows full well that DMK is for liberation of the Tamil race in Sri Lanka,” he said.
Mr. Karunanidhi said he could not accept the Defence Secretary’s remarks that the island government has taken all political steps to mitigate sufferings of the Tamil minority.
“Those who wanted to get the rights through fighting cannot accept the remarks of those who denied them their political rights,” he was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India.
Mr. Karunanidhi said DMK has never supported the ‘genocide’ of Tamils in Sri Lanka.
“We are not like Jayalalithaa who had said that it was natural for people to die in a war,” he said.
He warned of legal steps against a Tamil daily which had published an article alleging he had stashed Rs. 35,000 crore in a Swiss bank and described the report as fictitious, reports PTI.
“If Gotabaya thinks DMK is doing it for political mileage he is totally wrong as the party has been fighting for the cause for long. He knows full well that DMK is for liberation of the Tamil race in Sri Lanka,” he said.
Mr. Karunanidhi said he could not accept the Defence Secretary’s remarks that the island government has taken all political steps to mitigate sufferings of the Tamil minority.
“Those who wanted to get the rights through fighting cannot accept the remarks of those who denied them their political rights,” he was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India.
Mr. Karunanidhi said DMK has never supported the ‘genocide’ of Tamils in Sri Lanka.
“We are not like Jayalalithaa who had said that it was natural for people to die in a war,” he said.
He warned of legal steps against a Tamil daily which had published an article alleging he had stashed Rs. 35,000 crore in a Swiss bank and described the report as fictitious, reports PTI.
