VOTE BANK POLITICS

The statement of Taminal Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi calling Velupillai Prabhakaran a good friend is both amusing and confusing. The Tamil Nadu C M is playing on the sentiments of Tamilians during election time to garner maximum support to his party. The whole world knows that the LTTE is a terrorist organization responsible for killing thousands of innocent people and scores of top rung political leaders in SriLanka and assassination of our beloved former Prime Minister shri Rajiv Gandhi. The general public in India is sympathetic to the problems faced by the civilian Tamil population in SriLanka. Negotiated settlement is the only permanent solution that can bring peace in the island.