Thiru Nadesan returns empty-handed!

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Created On Thursday, 20 February 2014 13:58

Category: General

Wealthy businessman Thiru Nadesan, a brother-in-law of the president, has returned empty-handed from India, where he had failed an attempt to strike a deal with leaders of the BJP, which is believed to win the general elections in May, reports say.

Before departing for India, Nadesan had met with the president and boasted that he was having very grood ties with BJP leaders and promised to give the president telephone calls soon after meeting with them.  When the president had inquired as to who he was going to meet, Nadesan had replied that senior BJP leaders Arun Jaitley, Rajnath Singh and Nirmala Sitharaman of South India were among them. He had said that he would go directly to South India, stay at Nirmala’s Cochin home, and together with her, would go to Delhi to meet with other BJP leaders. He even bragged that he would be likely to have a meeting with the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.

So, the president had been waiting for a call from Nadesan from India, but after receiving no correspondence, had himself called him. Nadesan’s reply was, “All of them are very busy sir. I will give you the details once I return,” and he had hung up. A few days later, he came back empty-handed. Later, the president got to know that Nadesan, leave alone meeting with BJP leaders, could not go anywhere near them, as they had refused to meet the man, known to them as a bad character.

Presidential advisor Milinda Moragoda, who had gone to meet BJP leaders as a representative of the president, had been told by a spokesman of the BJP’s PM hopeful that, “with regard to Sri Lanka, Narendra Modi would follow the same policies of Atal Bihari Vajpayee.” Accordingly, in the event of a BJP win at the upcoming general election, Sri Lanka will lose all the military training and aid from India.