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Every Tamil wants the North East Province to be recognised as their traditional homeland. We are not prepared to have any truck with the Government that refuses to recognise our demands, United Tamil Alliance nominee Kumar Ponnambalam Gajendran said.

He was speaking at the first election meeting held at Gurunagar Jaffna said:

"There is a big difference between the politics practised during the time of my grand father late G.G. Ponnambalam and the present era. Politicians of those days concentrated mainly on the needs of their electorate and their constituents but today the politicians have to fulfil the political aspirations of their race. The aspirations of the Tamils have already been made explicit. They assert that political self determination is an inalienable right of every Tamil and the LTTE should be recognised as the sole representative of the Tamils. We are not worried as to who would form the next Government. Whoever who comes to power should concede the foregoing demands of the Tamils.

He was speaking at the first election meeting held at Gurunagar Jaffna on the 100th birthday commemoration of late G.G. Ponnambalam the Tamil Congress Leader.

The meeting started with the garlanding of the statue of late G.G. Ponnambalam by the family members and ardent supporters of G.G. Ponnambalam.

Gajendran further said the reason why the Tamil United Alliance was formed to make the whole world aware that Tamils have united to win their demands and to show that the Tamil political parties have accepted the LTTE as the sole representatives of the Tamils and the Government that comes to power should have peace talks with the LTTE only and not with any other political party.

He said that so far the Tamil parties have not been successful in bringing the ethnic issue to the attention of the foreign countries. It was the LTTE that made the ethnic problem an issue that merited the mediation of the foreign countries. They have been sacrificing their lives to enable the Tamils to live with self respect in the land of their birth. The Tamil race is morally obliged to bow their heads to the LTTE for the great sacrifices made by them.

He pointed out that the Tamils must be aware of the freedom struggle taking place in different parts of the world. It is regrettable that the LTTE has been branded as terrorists.

The Tamils should unitedly let our Sinhalese brothren and the international community know the LTTE is not a terrorist organisation. The victory to the United Tamil Alliance would show that the LTTE has the full backing of the Tamils.

Appathurai Vinayagamoorthy and C.V.K. Sivagnanam the Tamil Congress candidates also spoke.

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