From: vigneswa@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Jayalalitha seeks LTTE's help....
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:26:35 GMT

rr2@cec2.wustl.edu (Rajamiyer Ravichandran) writes:
 
>       I read in the latest issue of Thuglak (the tamil political magazine)
>that Jayalalitha has sent some emissaries to meet with LTTE guys in
>Paris and Singapore.....

	I posted an article from Times of India in SCTamil.  I didn't want
to post in in the SCIndia  at that time in order to avoid number of follow
up articles in SCTamil.  I have the whole article for you.

>	If this is true, then Jayalalitha is not doing the right thing.
>It is childish to believe that LTTE will keep up its promise. It should
>not be forgotten that there were reports of Rajiv's men meeting LTTE
>in california just months before he was assasinated. Same is true with
>Amirthalingam's case. 

	LTTE - Rajiv's men  meeting in  California is a news to me.  In
any case, the involvement of LTTE in the deaths Rajiv and Amirthalingam
is yet to be proved in the court of law.
 
>	At one point, I admired Jaya's guts for willing to
>root out LTTE from Indian soil. It is surprising that she backed off 
>at a time when even the DMK publicly disowned the LTTE. I hope
>better sense will prevail upon her.

	If it is true, one thing is clear.  Jayalalitha didn't want to
rely on the security  she gets from India and Tamilnadu.  Someone must
have told her about General Vaidya who led the Army into Golden Temple.
I guess it was "ego", not "guts". However, it is understandable if she
goes to LTTE to defend her and her interests.

Vicky:
UMass, Sep 11

+++++++
	In our part of the world, LTTE is considered one of the very
powerful non-governmental organizations.  An Indian politician drags
LTTE again in the local politics of India.  The following article is 
for your "educational" purposes (so no copyright violations!). Is it 
Subramaniam Swami or Swaninathan Swami?  It must be the first.

	Pl. note that Kugan who typed it in or Vicky who posted this
may not be questioned for someone else's view.....

Vicky:
UMass,Sep 01
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This item appears in the August 25, 1992 issue of the Times of India.


             JAYA GOT PROTECTION FROM LTTE: Swamy
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The Times of India News Service
Colombo, August 24

Dr Swaminathan Swamy, president, Janatha party, today  alleged 
Tamil Nadu  chief  minister, Ms J.Jayalalitha, had  sought and 
got  protection  from  the   LTTE  through  emissaries sent to 
Singapore and Paris at the end of June.

Addressing  a  crowded  Press  conference  here tody, Dr Swamy 
declined to name  the  emissary  but  said  that  it was not a 
government  official. According to Dr Swamy, the first meeting 
between the emissary and  a  representative of  the Tigers had 
taken place in June  in  Singapore. The Paris meeting was held 
later and the protection deal was worked out.

Dr Swamy said as a  result,  the  Jayalalitha  government  had 
slackened its action  against  the  LTTE  in  the  last month. 
Dr Swamy claimed  that  the  revived  smuggling  of  medicines 
and diesel to Sri  Lanka  was  also fall-out of the protection 
deal. When he  was  asked  whether  Central agencies including 
the coast guard  and  Indian  Navy  were  not also responsible 
for the renewed smuggling  activity, Dr  Swamy  did not agree. 
According  him,  the  Tamil  Nadu  police  were patrolling the 
hinterland  and the leak was allowed to happen by this agency, 
security  on the seas could not be made watertight.

Dr Swamy denied involvement in any move topple Ms Jayalalitha. 
He agreed that he had met with Dr Natarajan, whom he described 
as an old friend. Dr Natarajan has  been  credited with trying 
to engineer a split in the AIADMK . Dr  Swamy  said he had met 
some AIADMK MPs in  Delhi  and   also  Mr K .Rajaram,  whom Ms 
Jayalalitha  had  dropped after induction him as food minister 
when she took  office  last June. He agreed that he had met Dr 
Natarajan, Mr Rajaram and  Mr  S.Thirunavukkarasu,  leader  of 
the Anna purathithalaivar  Dravida  Munntera  Kazhagam  and  a 
Jayalalitha baiter, during his last visit to the metropolis.

DAYS NUMBERED. He said Ms Jayalalitha's days as chief minister 
were numbered. Asked on what he based his prediction, Dr Swamy 
said the  misdeeds of  the  Jajalalitha  government  had  been 
mounting and  she  would  be  convinced  that she had lost the 
mandate.

Dr Swamy said there was enormous corruption in the  Jayalalitha 
government.   He    alleged   the   involvement  of   low-level 
politicians from  the  state in havala (sp?) rackets in Bombay. 
Dr Swamy said from October 2 this year, he would  move to Tamil 
Nadu and set about the task  of  preparing  a  document  of Ms 
Jayalalitha's misdeeds.

He plans to tour the state and explain to the people  how  she 
had betrayed the  people.  Dr  Swamy  also  said  that  if  Ms 
Jayalalitha  did  not  change  her  dictatorial and corruptive 
style  of  functioning,  he  would  launch  a movement for her 
ouster. He claimed that the telephones of 28 prominent persons 
including  Mr  Cho Ramaswamy, journalists of THGLAAQ and other 
journalists  were being tapped by the Jayalalitha government.

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