Journalist: Mr. Ambassador, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Mr. C, Ramchandran has announced that the police will return everything including arms that were captured form various centers of the Tamil Liberation Front in the State.
Ambassador: That’s right.
Journalist: The police had raided their centers after the leaders of the Front rejected Mr. Jayewardene’s proposals for settlement of Tamil issue in Sri Lanka. The proposals were earlier endorsed by Rajiv Gandhi.
Ambassador: Very true.
Journalist: What compulsions are there that are forcing the government for return sophisticated illegal weapons to the Tamil guerrillas who are waging an open rebellion in a neighbouring country? Isn’t India playing the same game as is being played by the Soviets in Afghanistan?
Ambassador : Not in national interest to disclose.
Journalist: Mr. Ambassador, Punjab Finance Minister, Mr. Balwant Singh has stated that Khalistan will not be in the interests of the Sikhs.
Ambassador: That’s right.
Journalist: For Balwant Singh Sikh interests mean his own personal interests as demonstrated by his shameless role in sabotaging the Sikh struggle by engineering the hollow Punjab Accord.
Ambassador: Very correct.
Journalist: Don’t you think if Balwant Singh were to be made the ‘Chief Minister, he would even say that it is not in Sikh interest to be Sikhs and would ask Sikhs to embrace Hinduism?
Ambassador: Not in national interest to disclose.
Journalist Mr. Ambassador, Indian government has dismissed the protest of Pakistan over extensive military exercises in Punjab and maintains that the exercises being of routine nature did not warrant prior information to Pakistan.
Ambassador: That’s right.
Journalist: Indian government resorted to an precedented action when it cancelled all north bound trains resulting in complete disruption of transporting food grains from Punjab to the
Ambassador: Very correct
Journalist: Don’t you think trains have been cancelled to economically destroy the Sikh farmers of Punjab? Is it not a fact that military exercise is only a ruse to permanently station army in Punjab?
Ambassador: Not in national interest to disclose.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 28, 1986
