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PM told to act on Jayalalithaa suggestions

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI DEC. 9. The Janata Party president, Subramanian Swamy, today urged the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, to take a ``resolute and decisive action'' on the ``constructive and patriotic written suggestions'' made by the Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam menace facing India in the high seas.

In a statement, he said ever since the dismissal of the DMK Government in 1991, the Centre had been vigilant in ensuring that the LTTE did not creep into India by hook or by crook. ``We Indians cannot rely on the Sinhala majority ruled Sri Lankan State to secure its borders since it is forever in a surrender mode. Sooner or later we have to secure Sri Lanka for the Sri Lankans.''

Dr. Swamy said: ``In this context, the recent offer of the LTTE for starting a dialogue with India by forgetting the `unfortunate past' is laughable. Do they think that Indians are also bereft of national self-respect?''

If the LTTE wanted to turn over a new leaf, then as a first step its leaders V. Prabakaran and Pottu Amman, should surrender at the Indian Embassy in Colombo so that they could be tried and punished for the assassination of the former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi. ``Of course, even after that, India cannot ever accept the LTTE as the sole representative of Tamils of Sri Lanka. Hence, till then the LTTE should stop wailing about wanting a relationship with India. Indians are not so gullible as to be taken in by assurances from terrorists.''

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