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Secretary to Chief Minister of Eastern Tamil Province shot dead

P K Balachandran. Expressbuzz

14 November  2008

"Kumaraswami Nandagoban, Private Secretary cum advisor to the Chief Minister of the Tamil-speaking Eastern Province, was shot dead ...in the outskirts of Colombo.. Pillayan is opposed by the Karuna faction of the ruling Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Puligal (TMVP).  Karuna, who is now a member of the Sri Lankan parliament thanks to nomination by the ruling United Peoples� Freedom Alliance (UPFA), has been a trenchant critic of Pillayan�s demand for more autonomy for the Eastern Province. The tacit support enjoyed by Pillayan from India, has also been an issue with Karuna."
 


Kumaraswami Nandagoban, Private Secretary cum advisor to the Chief Minister of the Tamil-speaking Eastern Province, was shot dead by unidentified persons in the outskirts of Colombo on Friday, local media reported.

Confirming the report, a top official of the Eastern Provincial government told Express that Nandagoban alias Ragu (32) and another person, were killed at about 11.30 am while they were traveling in a car in Athurugiriya.

The official said that Nandagoban was a highly educated person who had come back to Sri Lanka from his adopted home in Australia only to assist the island country�s first Tamil-speaking provincial Chief Minister, Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan.

The source said that the killers could be Chief Minister Pillayan�s rivals, who had been out to weaken him. Pillayan is opposed both by the LTTE and the Karuna faction of the ruling Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Puligal (TMVP).

According to the pro-LTTE Tamilnet website, Karuna had recently demanded the removal of Nandagoban from the Chief Minister�s inner circle.

Karuna had also taken over most of the TMVP camps from Pillayan�s loyalists, sometimes after armed clashes. Karuna, who is now a member of the Sri Lankan parliament thanks to nomination by the ruling United Peoples� Freedom Alliance (UPFA), has been a trenchant critic of Pillayan�s demand for more autonomy for the Eastern Province. The tacit support enjoyed by Pillayan from India, has also been an issue with Karuna.

Meanwhile, the LTTE has been gunning for Karuna, since he spearheaded the great defection in 2004, when most of the LTTE cadre from Eastern Sri Lanka, who under him, joined the government side.

Only recently, the LTTE had killed about a dozen TMVP cadres apparently belonging to the Karuna faction. Karuna fears that his cadre has been infiltrated by the LTTE. A few days ago, he asked the Sri Lankan army to screen his cadre to identify and weed out LTTE infiltrators.

According to The Island daily ,the Sri Lankan military is alive to the possibility of the LTTE�s infiltrating government-held areas as bogus members of Karuna�s TMVP.

 

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