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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Chief Minister Wigneswaran Worships Serial Rapist & Murderer Premananda
There is a proverb in English language “Show me your friends and I’ll tell you who you are…” It means find wise people and be in their company as much as possible. Very few know the dark side of Chief Minister C. V. Wigneswaran‘s
life or they know but pretend ignorance. In a recent interview M.A.
Sumanthiran alluded that Wigneswaran is a devotee of Premananda who was
convicted of raping under-aged orphan girls living in his Ashram and
murder of a young engineer Ravi. All the victims of Premananda’s sexual
exploits were young girls from Jaffna who followed Premananda when he
emigrated to Tamil Nadu following the 1983 communal riots.
Premananda
was born on November 17, 1951 at Mandandawela in Matala. His real name
is Premkumar Somasunderam but later took the name Premananda meaning one
possessed with love and eternal bliss. Premananda’s father
Somasunderam is from Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu. He married Pushpakanthi.
Premkumar (his original name) attended Christ Church College in Matala
until 8th standard. The house he was born is still there after
undergoing renovation.
His
biography reveals that as a young schoolboy Premkumar could manifest
sweets or fruits out of nowhere for his friends, and he became renowned
in his school for multiplying his lunch food, for holding erudite
discussions on philosophical subjects and even for performing miraculous
healings. Knowing that he could immediately see anyone’s problems and
infallibly predict their future, the parents of his friends became the
boy’s first devotees before he reached adolescence. As news of his
powers spread, hundreds of people in cities and villages began to seek
his blessings and healings.
At
the age of 16, after Premkumar used to conduct prayers, ceremonies and
interviews in his grandmother’s house. As time passed an Ashram was
built to welcome the crowds of people who flocked to see him. Named the
‘Centre of Peace for All Religions’ with symbols of every major faith
painted on inside walls.
In
1969 while he was addressing some 200 devotees who had gathered to
listen, his body began to glow and a saffron coloured robe suddenly
seemed to descend on him. A saffron coloured garb is that of an
initiated Hindu monk. At the time he was only 18 years old but from then
onwards he became known as Swami Premananda. He often materialised holy
ash or vibhuti from thin air. It was claimed that even as a toddler he
exhibited an unusual interest in spirituality. While his brothers and
sisters played outside, Premananda could be found performing poojas
(rituals) with his grandmother, or facing a wall in a corner absorbed in
deep meditation. It is said that if he thought too much about the
divine or the lives of saints, he would fall into an unconscious state
of rapture.
In
1983 Premananda’s modest Ashram was destroyed during 1983 communal
pogrom, so he emigrated to Tamil Nadu with some orphan children and
settled down in Thiruchi. Soon his name became famous, next only to
another god man Sai Bava, for materialising objects like lingam, rings,
chains and even watches made in Japan. He bought 150 acres of land at
Viralimalai in Pudukkoddai and set up an Ashram and an orphanage. The
Ashram was officially opened in 1989 and about 100 boys and girls lived
in the Ashram, most of them orphaned during 1983 riots. In the Ashram
all the children are provided with food, clothing, and shelter,
schooling and medical attention free of charge. Premananda’s Ashram
flourished and he set up Premananda Centres and Premananda Youth Groups
in many countries, including UK, Switzerland, Belgium. The aim of the
Ashram, Centres and Groups is to offer spiritual guidance and help to
all who come and to offer service to those in need throughout the world.
It is claimed Premananda’s teachings are universal and transcend the
barriers of race and religion.
Many
politicians and several foreigners became his devotees. They were
mesmerised by his production of vibhuti (sacred ash) by sleight of hand.
He wore saffron clothes and had a kinky hairdo. When the girls reached
puberty, he raped them, hoodwinking them into believing that he had
divine powers. Educated fools mistook him as a god incarnation and
became his followers. One of them is ex Supreme Court justice and
current Chief Minister of Northern Provincial Council Wigneswaran who
considers him as his Supreme Guru.
Normally
god men look intensely charismatic and attract followers, especially
women in their thousands. But, the stoutly built, dark-skinned and
bearded Premananda possessed no such charisma, but the magical powers he
claimed attracted both the educated and uneducated. They were
mesmerised by his production of vibhuti (sacred ash) by sleight of hand.
He wore saffron clothes and had a kinky hairdo. When the girls reached
puberty, he raped them.