Hindu fora in Tamil Nafu are in touch with Shiv Sena, VHP for a joint campaign to carve a Hindu nation out of Sri Lanka.
CHENNAI: As tension in Sri Lanka escalates, a few Hindu organisations in Tamil Nadu are trying to give a religious twist to the ‘Eelam cause’. The Federation of Hindu Organisations (FHO) is in touch with Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray and Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s Ashok Singhal to form an umbrella organisation for a nation-wide campaign for a separate Hindu nation to be carved out of Sri Lanka.
FHO-comprising the Hindu Makkal Katchi, Thani Tamilar Senai and Bharathiya Forward Block-kicked off the campaign with a rally to the Sri Lankan deputy high commission in Chennai Thursday last. “We have held discussions with Bal Thackeray and Ashok Singhal who have agreed for a nationwide campaign. We will also try to rope in religious leaders like the Kanchi Shankaracharya and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar,” FHO convenor Arjun Sampath told DNA.
“The Tamil- Singhalese division in Sri Lanka is misconstrued as one on language lines. Actually it is a Hindu- Buddhist divide. The Buddhists have been riding roughshod over the Tamils. Indian government should militarily intervene in Sri Lanka for the creation of a separate Hindu Eelam, which will be beneficial for India,” he says.
The FHO logic: “Tamils in Sri Lanka are ‘pure Shaivites’ and LTTE leader Prabhakaran is a devotee of Lord Muruga. When India could intervene in Pakistan to create Bangladesh in 1971, it can also do the same in Sri Lanka to create a Hindu nation. After the fall of Nepal as a Hindu nation to Communist propaganda, such a Hindu Eelam will be the only Hindu nation in the world.” Sampath says pro-Hindu leaders have shown interest in uniting for Hindu Eelam since “it would thwart the ISI’s efforts to have a base in Sri Lanka.”
Meanwhile, the pro-Eelam groups in Tamil Nadu have become vociferous, especially after the killing of 62 girls in a Sri Lankan air force bombing allegedly on an orphanage in the LTTE-controlled Mullaitheevu on August 14. The Dalit Panthers of India and the Tamil Nationalist Movement have been campaigning against the Sri Lankan government.
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