{"id":45976,"date":"2015-07-21T19:25:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T01:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=45976"},"modified":"2015-07-21T12:25:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T19:25:07","slug":"hanuman-bridge-across-palk-strait-is-a-death-knell-to-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/07\/21\/hanuman-bridge-across-palk-strait-is-a-death-knell-to-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"HANUMAN BRIDGE ACROSS PALK STRAIT IS A DEATH KNELL TO SRI LANKA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Malin Abeyatunge<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

All patriotic Sri Lankans should be grateful to Mr. K.Godage\u00a0 a former ambassador,\u00a0 for having brought to focus the next biggest danger Sri Lanka would be facing in the near future by his article titled \u00a0 \u00c4 bridge to destroy Sri Lanka \u201dappeared in Sunday Island 12 July.\u00a0 His fear AS WELL AS OUR FEAR for the territorial integrity of Sri Lanka by this subtle plan to build a bridge across Palk Strait\u00a0 by India conniving with unpatriotic\u00a0 Sri Lankan politicians is absolutely reasonable . The idea of building a bridge across Palk strait connecting Tamil Nadu with Northern Sri Lanka\u00a0 was conceived in Ranil Wickremasinghe\u2019s mind when he was the PM under CBK. For some luck, RW couldn\u2019t proceed thro as India didn\u2019t go ahead as then Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa didn\u2019t like this as she was against LTTE at that period of time. Then President CBK\u00a0 also didn\u2019t give the green light to go ahead for some reason unknown.\u00a0 However,\u00a0 Ranil as PM\u00a0 made a statement recently to revive this idea of building a bridge across Palk Strait to connect India & Sri Lanka.\u00a0 Imagine the plight of Mother Lanka had Prabhakaran accepted CBK\u2019s offer for ten year rule of Eelam in the North and East and Ranil built a bridge across Palk strait simultaneously?\u00a0\u00a0 Sri Lanka had a narrow shave of death. Due to some miracle, Sri Lanka is still one nation and one country.<\/p>\n

But reading the following quotes from the Google sources on this issue, the danger still remains.<\/p>\n

Some quotes from Google on this issue.<\/p>\n

Quote At a talk delivered at the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, during his earlier stint in office (2001-04), Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe mooted the idea of building a bridge \u2014 literally \u2014 across the Palk Strait, linking his country to India.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now that he is back as prime minister and as part of a \u2018cohabitation arrangement\u2019 but through political consensus, unlike in the past, the two governments could consider reviving the proposal for mutual and greater benefits.<\/em><\/p>\n

India may have the technology, but the required investments would be huge. Among other factors that pushed the proposal to the background included immediate reservations from then Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa about the LTTE targeting the bridge. (Source-Googl article by N.Sathiya Moorthy)<\/em>unquote<\/p>\n

Quote The Indian Government is also looking at connecting India and Sri-Lanka via a sea-bridge following the inauguration of the Agartala-Dhaka bus service and signing of the Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal motor vehicle agreement, Road Transport and Highways Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Tuesday.<\/em><\/p>\n

The road connectivity, built across the Palk Strait, could possibly be a combination of a sea-bridge and an underwater tunnel. The underwater tunnel would allow the movement of ships through the<\/em>
\n Palk Strait.<\/em><\/p>\n

A proposal for providing a road and rail link bridging the divide across the Palk Strait has been submitted to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for a pre-feasibility study and subsequent financing.Source-(DNA-India \u2013Mirror Citizen)<\/em>Unquote<\/p>\n

As Mr Godage says that Indian Imperialists are planning this idea in order to annex Sri Lanka\u00a0 to India. If that bridge as conceived in Ranil\u2019s mind is built, we can no longer call Sri Lanka a separate country or Island as it will become a part of India. NPC\u2019s CM Vignewsweran\u2019s subtle plan is to annex the North and East of Sri Lanka to Tamil Nadu and the reason behind his Genocide Talk appears to be\u00a0 part of this Plan. Further, CM recent visit to USA as a private visit as he called, he used his position as CM to meet some important politicians in the USA. How do we know that his visit was to\u00a0 campaign to raise funds to build that bridge in Palk Straight to claim for a greater Eelam.\u00a0 Adding insult to injury,\u00a0 Ranil recently promised (as reported in the print media) TNA and the western world that enhanced devolution of power would bel granted to the NPC. Will the increased devolution of power to NPC would be another step of Ranil\u2019s dream of the so called bridge across Palk Strait connecting\u00a0 India & Sri Lanka? Imagine a bridge is built as Ranil wants, there will be influx of Kalla Thonis<\/em><\/strong> settling down first in the North and East and then will spread to other part of the country and there will not be a\u00a0 Sinhala Buddhist Sri Lanka in 50 years\u2019 time. There will be an effortless influx of narcotics to the country. We will be opening our gates to more environmental hazards and disease threats.<\/p>\n

The UPFA should take this issue into focus and promise\u00a0 the Sri Lankan people that they will never allow\u00a0 any politician to\u00a0 make Ranil\u2019s dream which he conceived in 2002 a reality in building a bridge across Palk Strait connecting Tamil Nadu and North and East of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

Malin Abeyatunge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Malin Abeyatunge All patriotic Sri Lankans should be grateful to Mr. K.Godage\u00a0 a former ambassador,\u00a0 for having brought to focus the next biggest danger Sri Lanka would be facing in the near future by his article titled \u00a0 \u00c4 bridge to destroy Sri Lanka \u201dappeared in Sunday Island 12 July.\u00a0 His fear AS WELL AS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malin-abeyatunga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}