'Pro-LTTE' elements blast rail track in Tamil Nadu; passengers escape unhurt - dnaindia.com

'Pro-LTTE' elements blast rail track in Tamil Nadu; passengers escape unhurt - dnaindia.com

This is the first instance of an act of terrorism in the name of Sri Lankan Tamils within Tamilnadu in a long time now. It indicates a dangerous trend and can even increase in the coming months as desperate sympathizers will try to buy political mileage with major parties before the Assembly election next year.

The un-directed anger towards the central and state governments on the issue of Sri Lankan Tamils in Tamilnadu, particularly among the youth is high and the insensitivity of the two governments on this issue will cost heavily in the coming days, for them in their vote harvest as well as in the disturbance of peace in the coming days.

This anger is already attracting vote salivating leaders who want to place their confused rhetoric and violent posturing as a political philosophy. But, none of such leaders have the courage to court terrorism, or at least they don't seem to. This to me seems to be an act of someone else trying to disturb the existing non-terror situation in the state, thereby start a different kind of debate / dialogue on terrorism.

Tamilnadu is politically weak, we don't have a credible, consistent and coherent opposition and the ruling party is pre-occupied with a single family, its interests, fantasies and obsessions. Someone is seeing a favourable environment to insert terrorism now, the anger among the masses can give them the get away route and the political mess can provide the lack of decisive action.

Hope there is a quick identification and nipping in the bud of such perpetrators of terrorism in the state. It has several other real challenges to deal with and does'nt need to deal with such imposed one.