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Vaiko plans to tour the State to mobilise support for Eelam

Special Correspondent

CHENNAI: The Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam will mobilise youth and students in the State in support of Tamil Eelam, general secretary Vaiko said on Wednesday.

Addressing a meeting organised by the advocates' wing of the party here, he said he would tour the State to propagate the concept of Tamil Eelam .

Asserting that there was no alternative to the Tamils other than an independent nation, Mr. Vaiko said agreements and assurances given to the Tamils by the Sri Lankan Government in the past had not been honoured. On the other hand, systematic measures were taken by the Government to "annihilate" the Tamil race. This had forced the Tamils to take up arms against the Government.

India's stand

Questioning India's support to Sri Lanka's unity and integrity, Mr.Vaiko said India had no locus standi to make any such suggestion. It was for the Tamils to decide. That the formation of a Tamil Eelam would lead to the creation of a greater Tamil nation, including Tamil Nadu, was a "malicious propaganda," he said.

While his party was for the India's unity, it favoured Tamil Eelam to enable Tamils there to leave peacefully, he said. Appealing to the Prime Minister to send a delegation of MPs of all political parties to the Tamil areas in Sri Lanka to find out the situation prevailing there, Mr. Vaiko said India should extend support to the "freedom struggle of Tamils."

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