NPC member dashes Mace

By Ananth Palakidnar

 2014-12-05

Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Provincial Councillor, M.K. Sivajilingam, had thrown the mace of the Council and demanded that a motion brought by him six months ago, calling the alleged war crimes a genocide, should be passed by the Council at the NPC's 20th sitting yesterday.

Sivajilingam became violent when he was told
by Council Chairman C. V. K. Sivagnanam that his motion would be taken for voting in January next year.
However, Sivajilingam was adamant that the motion should be passed by the NPC without any further delay. The motion was brought before the NPC six months ago by Sivajilingam.
The TNA hierarchy requested the NPC not to take any immediate decision on the issue as it has been discussed between the TNA leadership and the UNHRC in Geneva.

Following the request made by the TNA hierarchy, the NPC shelved the motion brought by Sivajilingam. However, when Sivajilingam took up the issue yesterday, Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran told Sivajilingam to make his motion a complete one.
Following the suggestion made by the Chief Minister, the Chairman of the NPC announced that the motion would be tabled for voting in January 2015.

But the irritate Councillor lifted the mace, placed before the Chairman's seat, and dashed it on the ground while shouting that the NPC was reluctant to take firm decisions with regard to Tamil political issues.
Later, the officials of the NPC pacified the Councillor and placed the mace back in its original place.