Suresh Premachandran is acting like a bull in a china shop
An opinion and advice by a concerned Tamil
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What is needed for the Tamil people is a political leadership that will articulate a nation building process and lead them honestly without causing disharmony. In the blood soaked and skeletons strewed lands of the north and east, people are struggling to emerge out of the heavy odds facing them.
( November 02, 2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) In
the recent past, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian Suresh
Premachandran is showing all the signs of a frustrated man. Unable to
deal with the internal strives internally within the TNA, he is using
the Diaspora Tamil media to discharge his campaign against the TNA
leadership.
Disparaging
claims are being made on all kinds of issues and there is a section of
the conditioned Tamil Diaspora that is thriving in his hypes in
supporting him.
Some
of the outbursts he publicly make are internal matters that should have
been privately dealt within the TNA to avoid unwanted debates in the
public, leading to diversion of resources for the TNA that has to emerge
as a much focussed and a responsible party.
Suresh
Premachandran’s lack of interest in engaging in wider issues and
limiting his politics to mere publicity seeking has become his
preoccupation that is endangering the path of unity and the responsible
way forward for the Tamils. He has still not moved away from the
apologetic pre-war politics of authoritarianism and is taking cover
under opportunism, slumber and the parochial inward tendency.
His
personal résumé will tell his attitude to politics is limited to
quarrelling in a scale that he cultivated in his school going age. He
has become a politician reflecting selfish opportunism and there is
nothing there to vouch for his educational or entrepreneurial skills.
Hate appears to be his motto and even with his progressing age, he is
unable to change track with a mature sense. His only business experience
comes from running a bus hiring business with the siphoned off from his
EPRLF military training funds of the early 1980’s.
Suresh
Premachandran’s ambition to become the leader of the Tamil people by
his hate campaign in the media will have negative influence for him.
Standing for principles are important for a politician. Whilst claiming
to stand for this position and subverting it by petty conduct will not
earn the goodwill in the wider Tamil society.
In
a political party, there will be differing opinions and personality
clashes that will entrap the politician to prove himself a person beyond
insignificant mindset. Any ambitious politician will move away from the
narrow minded thinking to score points on trivial issues.
What
is needed for the Tamil people is a political leadership that will
articulate a nation building process and lead them honestly without
causing disharmony. In the blood soaked and skeletons strewed lands of
the north and east, people are struggling to emerge out of the heavy
odds facing them. Politicians like Premachandran must go beyond and
engage in the nation building process without burying the Tamil people
in the deeper pains for their petty gains.
