Eelam demand: Tamil Nadu leaders are playing with fire

March 28, 2013 12:13

On FirstPost: Politics in Tamil Nadu is sliding fast down the slippery slope of competitive Tamil sub-nationalism.

The resolution passed by the Tamil Nadu Assembly on Wednesday, demanding that India move a resolution in the UN Security Council for a referendum for a separate Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka, is the result of a dangerous game of political one-upmanship among the Opposition DMK and the ruling AIADMK -- and smaller fringe groups that feed off a fanatical Tamil identity.

It has the capacity to recoil on the Sri Lanka Tamils, who find that their genuine demand for political devolution within the Sri Lankan Constitution has been hijacked by diaspora politics and the short-sighted political games being played in Tamil Nadu.

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