Sri Lanka’s state-run daily carries editorial hailing Jaya
Sri Lanka’s State-run newspaper, the Daily News, on Wednesday said it was an “end of an era in Tamil Nadu”, referring to the death of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa. Referring to her stance on the LTTE – she moved from being rather critical of the organisation before the 1990s to later seeking a referendum for a separate Eelam – the Colombo-based English daily observed that Sri Lanka had ceased to be an electoral issue in Tamil Nadu after the island’s long civil war ended in 2009. Giving her credit for her welfare measures the editorial observed that “even the fiercest critics of Jayalalithaa would unhesitatingly admit that poverty was one issue she strove to tackle.” She championed the cause of the rural and urban poor by introducing subsidised “Amma” food canteens, providing free laptops to thousands of school pupils and launching other populist schemes like giving away food mixers and grinders to families, the daily said. Indian origin Tamils working in Sri Lanka’s famed tea estates, who seldom figure in Tamil Nadu’s rhetoric on Sri Lankan Tamils, paid their respects to the departed leader, in many places garlanding her pictures and offering prayers.
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