Former Parliamentarian and Vice President of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman today said, he will resign from the SLFP and join the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) led by Ananda Sangaree.
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Karuna Amman said he and a group of local Tamil politicians supporting him have decided to contest all future elections under the TULF banner.
The former LTTE deputy leader said he would convene a media briefing in two weeks to announce the reasons for his decision.
Karuna expressed dismay about the SLFP hierarchy distancing him politically and not backing him when he faced several purpoted accusations.
In contrast Karuna said that he had helped both the SLFP and the country when both needed his services most. Karuna said he had played a pivotal role in defeating Prabhakaran and the LTTE and lamented that it was sad to see the country’s leaders forgetting his services in such a short time.
Karuna also welcomed several recent investigations centering on him including the disappearance and the alleged murder of Prageeth Ekneligoda while adding that these probes will reveal the truth as to who is truly responsible for such mayhem.
Karuna also refuted allegations directed at him by the recent report released by the office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and said that he is ready to face any inquiry.
He said that even though the UN report has mentioned about a ‘Karuna Group’, he was not aware of any such group formed under him. Karuna said he had never taken up arms after quitting the LTTE.
Karuna said that he had met Sangaree for several rounds of talks and added that he was highly impressed by the TULF leaders vision to fulfill aspirations of the Tamil people.
Karuna said his resignation will be sent to the SLFP General Secretary today.
Raja Perera / October 30, 2015
Karuna, once a “bait”, lost his IMPORTANCE due to the “power failure” in the house, and because he wants to be in the lime light again, made up a plan to attain what he lost or what was taken away fron him.
Hungry for power, usually makes one “deaf and blind” and pushes one to the limits of Safety. This time he is making himself to the entrance of the Dragon’s Den or rather in a shark’s open jaws.
Will he come out safe or perish to the crush of the Jaws is not a question, but whether he can reach the jaws is the question as the answer is buried in the question.
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tika / October 31, 2015
pillayan, and karuna being the weakest of the weakest they would be pushed into the jaws by the very section of the slfp ignoring the gun slinger. Then Kp and finally douglas the christian.- pecking order of murder by design.
“fulfill aspirations of the Tamil people.”
He and the old idiot about to kick the bucket are talking of rights of the dead.
while everyone world over are talking of the ones who are left.
Karuna takes pride in his killing of folk on duty then moving with the authority and killing his Tamil comrades using child soldiers.
What a piece of Tamil meat is this for folk to cast one vote??
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