The State government is ready to write to the Centre to provide treatment in Tamil Nadu to Parvathi, the ailing mother of LTTE leader V. Prabakaran, if she expresses her willingness to return, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi told the Assembly on Monday.
“We are ready to consider the request and write to the Centre. I will inform the House what the Centre says,” he said replying to a special calling attention motion moved by the Opposition, barring the AIADMK. The members of the party were absent when the issue was discussed.
Mr. Karunanidhi said he was not aware of the arrival of Ms Parvathi in Chennai to get treatment. The State government had not received any letter from her or those who were helping her, though there was a correspondence between her and the Centre. Mr. Karunanidhi said when he was informed about the problem at midnight he immediately contacted the airport. But he was told that Ms Parvathi had been deported.
“I came to know about the details only after reading newspapers the next day,” Mr Karunanidhi said, quoting from The Hindu.
The Hindu had reported that she landed at the Chennai airport by a Malaysian Airlines flight around 10.30 p.m. on Friday. However, immigration officials, following instructions from the Centre, deported her to Malaysia by the same flight.
According to the Chief Minister, Ms. Parvathi was denied permission because the previous AIADMK government, on May, 5, 2003, had written to the Union Home Ministry recommending that the “re-entry of Prabakaran's parents Velupillai and Parvathi Ammal may not be desirable in view of their association with the LTTE leader and the Tamilar Desiya Iyakkam, banned organisations.”
The AIADMK government had also sent particulars “to place their names under black list/prior approval category list to prevent their re-entry into India through legal/illegal means.” Recalling the efforts taken by the Tamil Eelam Solidarity Organisation (TESO) to prevent the deportation of Chandrahasan, the son of Selvanayagam, and LTTE's ideologue Anton Balasingam and Sathyendra in 1985, he said the Centre gave up its plans to deport them after the TESO embarked on a series of protests.
In 1985, he along with MDMK general secretary Vaiko, Tamil Nationalist Movement leader P. Nedumaran, Dravidar Kazhagam leader K. Veeramani and Finance Minister K. Anbazhagan fought against deportation of Sri Lankan Tamil leaders, but they (Vaiko and Nedumaran) went to the airport secretly to gain political advantage.
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