{"id":29979,"date":"2014-05-25T03:06:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T07:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=29979"},"modified":"2014-05-25T03:37:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T07:37:21","slug":"bjp-ally-mdmk-led-by-vaikowill-stage-black-flag-demonstrations-in-chennai-and-new-delhi-opposing-mahinda-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=29979","title":{"rendered":"BJP Ally MDMK  Party Led by &#8220;Vaiko&#8221;Will Stage Black Flag  Protest Demonstrations in New Delhi and Chennai Opposing Mahinda Rajapaksa."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Opposing the invitation to Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa for Narendra Modi\u2019s swearing\u2014in as Prime Minister, BJP ally MDMK on Saturday announced a black flag demonstration against the head of the island republic in Delhi on May 26.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A similar protest will be held in Chennai the same day, he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>MDMK chief Vaiko compared his situation to that of the anti\u2014Hindi agitation launched by DMK under its founder, late C N Annadurai, in 1965 saying, the Dravidian veteran had only opposed imposition of Hindi and not the Indian republic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimilarly, while extending greetings to Narendra Modi for his thumping win and expressing my happiness over the same, I oppose the participation of Rajapaksa who is involved in Tamil genocide. Since it is our duty to register our opposition, MDMK under my leadership will hold a black flag demonstration,\u201d against Rajapaksa in Delhi, he said in a statement here.<\/p>\n<p>The protest, which was in line with Vaiko\u2019s earlier announcement of opposing any India visit of the Lankan President, will be held at Jantar Mantar at 11 a.m., he said.<\/p>\n<p>A staunch supporter of Tamil Eeelam (separate home land for Lankan Tamils), Vaiko had earlier led protestors to oppose Rajapaksa\u2019s visit to Sanchi in Madhya Pradesh last year.<\/p>\n<p>Vaiko, who lost in the recent Lok Sabha elections along with six other party nominees contesting as part of the alliance formed by the BJP, said it was not proper for Rajapaksa to attend the swearing\u2014in of Modi as \u201cit will spoil the sanctity\u201d of the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The MDMK leader, who had personally met Modi and BJP president Rajnath Singh in Delhi on Friday arguing against the Lankan leader\u2019s participation in the May 26 swearing\u2014in, alleged that minority Tamils in Sri Lanka were still facing many difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>Terming as a \u201cbetrayal\u201d India&#8217;s abstention from voting in a US\u2014sponsored resolution on human rights violations in a UN body in March this year, Vaiko charged that officials behind such a move were \u2018misleading\u2019 Modi in this matter.<\/p>\n<p><em>COURTESY:Press Trust of India<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton29979\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D29979&amp;text=BJP%20Ally%20MDMK%20%20Party%20Led%20by%20%26%238220%3BVaiko%26%238221%3BWill%20Stage%20Black%20Flag%20%20Protest%20Demonstrations%20in%20New%20Delhi%20and...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposing the invitation to Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa for Narendra Modi\u2019s swearing\u2014in as Prime Minister, BJP ally MDMK on Saturday announced a black flag demonstration against the head of the island republic in Delhi on May 26. A similar protest will be held in Chennai the same day, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29979"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29998,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29979\/revisions\/29998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}