June 02, 2014<\/p>\n
His Excellency Shri Narendra Modi<\/p>\n
Prime Minister of India<\/p>\n
South Block, Raisina Hill<\/p>\n
New Delhi-110001, India<\/p>\n
Your Excellency,<\/p>\n
As a Member of the Northern Provincial Council of Sri Lanka, on behalf of my constituents and myself, I would like to extend my warmest congratulations and heartiest felicitations to your Excellency, as you begin your premiership of the greatest and the largest democracy of the world.\u00a0\u00a0I recall my meeting you in September 2007 in Chennai, during the funeral for late BJP leader Mr. Jana Krishnamoorthy. I then stated to you and wished you that one day you will be the Prime Minister of India, and I am delighted to see that wish has become true.<\/p>\n
As the great people of India have given you their historic endorsement and mandate, we Tamils living in Sri Lanka too are very hopeful of your leadership and sincerely believe your leadership will lead to a political solution that offers us our legitimate political rights along with equality, dignity and justice.\u00a0\u00a0I also recall my meeting with the media at the BJP leader Mr. L. K.Advani \u2018s residence in New Delhi on December 18, 2008, where I talked about the destruction of more than 1000 Hindu temples and the killings of thousands of Tamils in Sri Lanka by its armed forces, and stated in public my hope that if the BJP ever came to power the sufferings of the Tamils could end.\u00a0\u00a0I am now very hopeful, with your leadership our sufferings in Sri Lanka could end.<\/p>\n
Your Excellency, as you know, the successive Sri Lankan leaderships have repeatedly refused to offer the Tamils their political rights.\u00a0All the negotiations and agreements between the Tamil and Sinhala leaderships were never implemented due to the intransigence of Sri Lanka\u2019s Sinhala leadership. As Your Excellency knows well, even the Indo-Lanka Accord of 1987 has not been properly implemented by Sri Lanka. The government of Sri Lanka has demerged the Northern and Eastern Provinces which were merged as per the Indo-Lanka Accord. Sri Lanka even refuses to implement the 13 Amendment in full, despites its obligation to India and promises to the International Community.<\/p>\n
Having gone through more than 65 years of injustice by successive governments of Sri Lanka, Tamil people are fully aware that no political solution will reach us without the direct and active involvement of India. I therefore, wish to urgently bring the following issues to Your Excellency\u2019s kind attention:<\/p>\n
May Your Excellency enjoy success in every one of your endeavors.<\/p>\n
Thank you.<\/p>\n
Yours sincerely,<\/p>\n
M. K. Shivajilingam<\/p>\n
Member of Northern Provincial Council, Sri Lanka<\/p>\n
Former Member of Parliament, Sri Lanka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
June 02, 2014 His Excellency Shri Narendra Modi Prime Minister of India South Block, Raisina Hill New Delhi-110001, India Your Excellency, As a Member of the Northern Provincial Council of Sri Lanka, on behalf of my constituents and myself, I would like to extend my warmest congratulations and heartiest felicitations to your Excellency, as you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-ta"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n