By Niranjala Ariyawansha

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) Tuesday accused Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran of nourishing and triggering a possible racist backlash against Tamils in the South with his ‘wake up’ call to Tamils in Jaffna last week.

The JVP said Wigneswaran was resorting to desperate tactics because he has run out of strings to clutch at and in his desperation was only fuelling the sentiments of the racist Rajapaksa gang of the South.

General Secretary of the JVP, Tilvin Silva, speaking at a media briefing at the JVP headquarters Tuesday, said,”What happens is that Wigneswaran’s statement nourishes racist groups in the South. Even the Tamil National Alliance (TNA)has expressed their opposition to that statement. We strongly condemn that statement of Wigneswaran.”

He further said that although Wigneswaran had made various statements to this effect on earlier occasions,what he has said now was extremely serious especially considering the fact that it comes at a time when various measures are being implemented in the sphere of promoting national harmony between the Sinhala and Tamil people,after the war ended. Such statements should not be made.

“Wigneswaran is bankrupt and has a thoroughly unsuccessful track record as a Chief Minister. He has failed to use funds given by the government for projects for the people of the North. Therefore, he has become unpopular among the people of the North. It’s to cover up this bankruptcy that Wigneswaran is making such radically racist statements. But his statements will fail in their objectives. Despite this, however, they will provide the ammunition for racist opportunists in the South to create mischief.

Wigneswaran says that Sinhala people cannot resettle in the North. According to the Law of Sri Lanka, the Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim and Burgher people have the right to settle down anywhere in any province they like,” Silva said.

Courtesy:Ceylon Today