Tamil Nadu Hindu extremists in conflict with Sri Lanka

There are enough causes where they can get involved in post-war issues in the North and Eastern parts of the country, quite apart from the Central Highlands.

Sri Lanka’s crises--most of them are selfinflicted due to mismanagement of the economy and bad policies which allowed some foreign elements with vested interests to critique or get involved in the country's internal affairs for the wrong reasons.

As India’s Hindutva forces tried to influence their ideologies across the

Palk Straits, there are enough causes where they can get involved in post-war issues in the North and

Eastern parts of the country, quite apart from the

Cen tra l

Highlands.

The latest such attempt is one such outfit called Hindu Makkal Katchchi, based in Tamil Nadu. Taking advantage of Hindu sentiments over the dispute between the Archaeology Department and the Thirukoneswaram temple in Trincomalee, its leader Arjun Sampath wrote to the Deputy High Commissioner of Sri Lanka based in Chennai on a local dispute with wild historical claims.

"If the Sri Lankan government with a brute Buddhist majority in Parliament as a part of its unholy, un-Buddhist programme of Buddhist expansionism and aggression wants to do what Baber did in Ayodhya a few hundred years ago, we, 1200 million global Hindus, will not shut our eyes and ears to keep quiet," the outspoken leader declared while demanding a "hands-off" policy over 400 acres of land claimed by the temple as a Hindu preserve and enclave region.