Any expatriate Tamils wanting consultant positions for Jaffna Municipality must contact Minister Douglas Devananda

நவம்பர் 27 கொலைகாரர்களின் தினம்:அமைச்சர் டக்ளஸ் தேவானந்தா

வீரகேசரி இணையம் 11/28/2009 5:13:11 AM - நவம்பர் 27 கொலைகாரர்களின் தினம் என சமூக சேவைகள் மற்றும் சமூக நலத்துறை அமைச்சர் டக்ளஸ் தேவானந்தா தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.

விடுதலைப் புலிகளின் மாவீரர் தினமான நேற்று மன்னார் நகர மண்டபத்தில் இடம்பெற்ற நிகழ்வில் கலந்து கொண்டு உரையாற்றுகையில் அமைச்சர் இதனைத் தெரிவித்தார்.

அவர் மேலும் தெரிவிக்கையில்,

"இன்றைய தினம் கொலைகாரர்களின் தினம். உயிர் நீத்த போராளிகள் மக்களுக்காகவே உயிர் நீத்துள்ளனர். இவர்களை மன்னிக்க முடியும்.ஆனால் இதனை ஏவிவிட்டவர்கள் தற்போது

இல்லை.இவர்கள் அனைவரும் தங்களைத் தியாகம் செய்துள்ளனர்" எனத் தெரிவித்தார்.

இந்நிகழ்வின் போது மன்னார் மாவட்டத்திலுள்ள 7 பாடசாலைகளுக்கு 17 லட்சம் ரூபா பெறுமதியான பாடசாலை உபகரணங்களையும் அமைச்சர் பகிர்ந்தளித்தார். நிகழ்வில் சமூகசேவைகள்

அமைச்சின் உயர் அதிகாரிகளும்,மடு வலயக் கல்விப் பணிப்பாளர்,7 பாடசாலைகளினதும் அதிபர்கள் ஆகியோர் கலந்துகொண்டனர்.

இதனையடுத்து மன்னார்-தலைமன்னார் பிரதான வீதியிலுள்ள சிங்கள பாடசாலையில் தொண்டர் ஆசிரியர்கள் மற்றும் பட்டதாரி ஆசிரியர்களையும் அமைச்சர் டக்ளஸ் தேவானந்தா சந்தித்து

கலந்துரையாடினார்.




Any expatriate Tamils wanting consultant positions for Jaffna Municipality must contact Minister Douglas Devananda
by admin on Dec.02, 2009, under Sri Lanka
By Palmyra Beetle
Those who went on the delegation on a fact finding mission to Sri Lanka and met the President at the beginning of the year have become Douglas’s activists and consultants. So far, London based solicitor Rangan has been appointed as Municipal Councils legal consultant. Another London based Mylvaganam Sooriyasegaram has been engaged as consulting engineer. In addition, positions have been given to Dr Bala from London Dr Nadesan of Australia. According to information, many others have been approached and offered positions and they are said be undecided take on the positions.
A close Tamil ally of the President (name withheld) confirmed that whenever Douglas meet the President he always ask for ‘Sally’ (money). The President has said once: ‘I know how to handle Douglas. His main interest is money, once it is given he is subdued’.
(December 02, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The controversial paramilitary leader and the non-cabinet Minister Douglas Devananda is currently spearheading his one man show in the northern Jaffna peninsula. Heavily backed by the President and the military, Douglas is said to be enjoying absolute control over the affairs of Jaffna. His dictates is said to extending beyond the Jaffna municipal boundaries and people in Jaffna peninsula are said to fear for the arms held by his group. Minister Douglas Devananda and other Tamil paramilitary groups patronised by the President have not surrendered their weapons to the authorities yet.
Hiring and firing of officials by Douglas Devanada are said to be taking place in Jaffna without any check and balance by the government. In addition, his tight grip on Jaffna with the backing of the military is preventing other Tamil political parties to conduct their affairs in the peninsula.
Douglas Devananda’s Eelam Peoples Democratic Party (EPDP) is said to be a one man’s show of its leader. Except for managing his party offices in Colombo and Jaffna, there are no general membership or branch level political activities of members. Further, EPDP had never held elections to select its party officials.

Following the defeat of the LTTE, the EPDP leader is on the spree to recruit some diaspora Tamils to work for him. His very loyal friends overseas are said to be providing to their leader details of individual Tamils who are opposed to the LTTE. Douglas is said to personally approaching them and offering titled appointments as consultants for the Jaffna Municipal Council. These title offers are said to be his triumph card to lure the expatriates in the fringes.

His roping exercise has been successful and many of those who went on the delegation on a fact finding mission to Sri Lanka and met the President at the beginning of the year have become Douglas’s activists and consultants. So far, London based solicitor Rangan has been appointed as Municipal Councils legal consultant. Another London based Mylvaganam Sooriyasegaram has been engaged as consulting engineer. In addition, positions have been given to Dr Bala from London Dr Nadesan of Australia. According to information, many others have been approached and offered positions and they are said be undecided take on the positions.

With the help of these extraordinary consultants, Douglas Devananda is planning to hold an international conference on the theme of ‘Development’ in Jaffna to attract more expatriate Tamils.

According to news filed in a leading newspaper in Colombo ‘The Douglas Devananda-led EPDP, a constituent party of the ruling UPFA, has laid down several conditions including a demand for a political

solution and power devolution beyond the 13th Amendment, if it is to support President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the upcoming presidential election’. Having failed to influence the President, to properly

implement the 13th Amendment without any manipulations in the East whilst serving as Minister, Douglas Devananda is now up in arms for devolution beyond the 13th amendment to the constitution. This is

said to be a combined effort of both the President and Minister Douglas Devananda to convince the Tamil voters to back the President in the forthcoming Presidential election.

A close Tamil ally of the President (name withheld) confirmed that whenever Douglas meet the President he always ask for ‘Sally’ (money). The President has said once: ‘I know how to handle Douglas. His main interest is money, once it is given he is subdued’.

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