TNCC(I) GS quits the Party over Srilankan Tamils issue

Irked over an alleged eerie silence maintained by AICC President Sonia Gandhi on the Srilankan Tamils issue, a senior Congress leader and General Secretary of Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) Tamilaruvi Manian today resigned from the post and primary membership of the party.

Talking to newspersons here late this evening, he said Ms Gandhi was yet to break her silence over the alleged genocide of innocent Tamils by the Rajapakse government in Srilanka. ''My heart doesn't like to pledge language, Community to the party headed by Ms Gandhi,'' he said.

''Those who were holding the TNCC leadership, don't have clear vision on the livelihood issues of Tamil Nadu people, instead they rode on the shoulders of Dravidian parties to get MP and MLA seats for ''some'' people and made the party a brokerage institution,'' he alleged.

''I quit from the primary membership of the party and the position being held in the party today,'' he said.

''If the forty MPs representing the state stand united, they would have pressurised the Centre to interfere into the Srilankan Tamils issue,'' he added. He said Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi should undertake the leadership of the ''movement'' launched by leaders like Vaiko, Thirumavalavan, for the cause of Srilankan Tamils.

-- (UNI) -- 22DR83.xml

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