In an unprecedented twist the Tamil youth of the Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka have refused to join President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s party as members. News received by the Ceylon Times from ground said, that, the NPP embarked on a campaign in the Northern and Eastern Tamil provinces of Sri Lanka to recruit new members from the Tamil community.
Attracted by the anti corruption stand taken by the island nations newly elected President and his National Peoples Power alliance, the youth from the northern and Eastern provinces attended the NPP recruiters' pocket meetings held in various parts in both provinces.
The recruiters as usual, after elaborating on their policies that have been trending among the youth, particularly the millennial generation (1981-1996), have told the attendees, that it is mandatory to attend a 7 day course in Marxism, to become a NPP member,.This mandatory condition triggered an explosion of uproar of rejection among the attendees.
It was at this juncture, voices from the audience have said; "We do not need your classes, our Thalaivar has taught us enough politics and policies." with such voices coming from the audience the youth started leaving the venue one after the other.
Other news coming from both the Tamil provinces indicate that the NPP is working hard to make inroads in the Tamil provinces to attract the youth and the commoners that are feeling betrayed by the TNA and TNPF politicians who have been riding high since the war ended in 2009.
According to a civilian commentator, the NPP has identified the youth of these two provinces as their targets to achieve their goal, and to that end, they have made considerable inroads into the Tamil students' unions of the Eastern, Jaffna, Vavuniya and Kilinochchi universities and campuses.
"While this situation is alarming and detrimental to the Tamil community and its existence as nation on the whole, these kids of this Millennial generation should be made aware of the Black History of this JVP turned NPP and what could be expected from this political party once branded as terrorists by the J.R. Jayewardene government of the 80's.'' he further said.
Meanwhile the civil society of the Tamils' homeland is voicing out loudly and clearly, demanding that the Tamil people rally under the conch symbol that was used by Mr.Ariyanethiran, the Tamil common candidate and garnered 226,343 votes for him in the presidential run on Sept 21.
The conch symbol, after the presidential election has become so dear and near to the people of Sri Lanka's Tamil homeland, and has now been approved by the elections commission of Sri Lanka, as the official symbol of the Democratic Tamil National Alliance (DTNA) comprising the EPRLF, PLOTE, TELO, Crusaders for Democracy, TPA,TNP and Tamil National Green Movement.
Fearing their impending debacle, and the imminent rise of the conch symbol and the DTNA alliance,in the forthcoming general election, scheduled for November 14th, the Sumanthiran faction of the TNA, Gajenthirakumar Ponnampalam's TNPF and certain local NGO's, have embarked on an anti Tamil nationalism campaign by using the Jaffna university students as their pawns. As a result of this, a Tamil language press statement was circulated yesterday in the social media by the Jaffna university students' union.
Talking to our European correspondent, the youth who attended the NPP meetings have said "the university students unions' press release has infuriated us; we will be using all our strength and energy to campaign against all these political parties working against Tamil nationalism and the conch symbol, and make sure they are defeated in the upcoming election. We also vow to expose all the anti social activities of these local NGO Mafias, and university students who are made pawns by them are brought before justice.