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India has extended the ban on LTTE saying that Tamil chauvinist and pro-Tiger groups continue to foster a separatist tendency among the masses and are trying to enhance the support base for the former militant group in India, particularly in Tamil Nadu, which will ultimately have a strong disintegrating influence over the territorial integrity of India and blamed the Tamil Diaspora for providing support for such activities.
The LTTE continues to adopt a strong anti-India posture as also continues to pose a grave threat to the security of Indian nationals, it is necessary to declare LTTE as an ‘unlawful association’ with immediate effect," the Home Ministry notification issued by Joint Secretary Dharmendra Sharma said.
LTTE was banned in India in the aftermath of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991. The organisation was also defeated and virtually decimated by the Sri Lankan forces in 2009 when its supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran was also eliminated.
The Home Ministry said that the Tamil Diaspora continues to spread through the Internet portals, anti-India feeling amongst the Sri Lankan Tamils by holding the top Indian political leaders and bureaucrats responsible for the defeat of the LTTE, it said
The Home Ministry added the activities of the LTTE remnant cadres, dropouts, sympathisers, supporters who have been traced out recently in South India suggest that the cadres sent to Tamil Nadu would ultimately be utilised by the LTTE for unlawful activities.
The Home Ministry also added the LTTE’s objective for a separate homeland (Tamil Eelam) for all Tamils threatens the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India and amounts to cession from the Union and thus falls the ambit of unlawful activities.
The LTTE, even after its military defeat in May 2009 in Sri Lanka, has not abandoned the concept of ‘Eelam’ and has been clandestinely working towards the ‘Eelam’ cause by undertaking fund raising and propaganda activities in Europe.
The remnant LTTE leaders or cadres have also initiated efforts to regroup the scattered activities and resurrect the outfit locally and internationally, it said. - PTI
