No link with LTTE, says CPI(M)’s Mahendran
August 23, 2010 12:25 am
CHENNAI (PTI): Denying reports of his alleged links to the outlawed LTTE, a CPI(M) MLA today said he did not ‘leak’ details of a proposed ceasefire plan between the Sri Lankan government and the outfit to MDMK chief Vaiko.
CPI(M) MLA K Mahendran described reports in a section of media in this regard as ‘not true’ and said he had no links with the now decimated LTTE.
“Our party has always opposed the approach of LTTE and we stand for a political solution through dialogue for the ethnic issue. Besides we support granting of autonomy to Tamils in Sri Lanka,” the Perambur MLA said in a statement.
Neither he nor his party had maintained links with LTTE or its spokesperson Nadesan, as mentioned in the reports, he said.
‘The report, quoting Kumaran Pathmanaban (LTTE’s international fund manager, now in Sri Lankan detention) as saying that Nadesan spoke to me about the ceasefire proposal is not true,’ he said.
Earlier, reports in a section of the media, quoting an interview by Pathmanaban to a Sri Lankan daily, said Nadesan had ‘consulted’ Mahendran on a New Delhi-drafted ceasefire plan, which included laying down of arms by the rebels and surrender, which the MLA had ‘leaked’ to Vaiko.
Meanwhile, an MDMK spokesperson declined to comment on the issue.