இன்று இந்திய நேரம் மாலை 8:30 மணிக்கு வைகோவுடன் Devil's Advocate நிகழ்ச்சியில் வைகோவுடன் கரண் தாப்பர் உரையாடுகிறார். அதில்
"நாங்கள் வலுக்கட்டாயமாக அவர்களுக்கு ஆதரவளிக்கவில்லை. அமைச்சர் பதவி எங்களுக்குத் தேவையில்லை. அமைச்சரவையால் நாங்கள் பயனடையப் போவதுமில்லை. இந்த கூட்டணியில் தொடர்ந்து நீடிக்க வேண்டும் என பிரதமர் மன்மோகன் சிங் கேட்டுக்கொண்டதாலேயே காங்கிரஸ் கூட்டணியில் மதிமுக நீடிக்கிறது"
விடுதலைப் புலிகளை பயங்கரவாத இயக்கம் என காங்கிரஸ் மற்றும் ஐக்கிய முற்போக்கு கூட்டணி அரசு கருதி வரும் நிலையில் விடுதலைப் புலிகளுக்கு ஆதரவு தெரிவிக்கும் மதிமுக காங்கிரஸின் நிலையை ஏற்றுக்கொள்கிறதா என்ற கேள்விக்கு
"மத்தியில் காங்கிரஸ் கூட்டணி அரசுக்கு ஆதரவு அளித்து வரும் கம்யூனிஸ்டு கட்சிகள் காங்கிரஸின் அனைத்து கொள்கைகளையும் ஏற்காமல் அரசுக்கு வெளியில் இருந்து ஆதரவளித்து வருகிறார்கள். நாங்களும் அரசுக்கு வெளியில் இருந்துதான் ஆதரவு தருகிறோம். நாங்கள் அமைச்சரவையில் இல்லை"
தனித் தமிழ் ஈழம் ஒன்றே இலங்கையிலுள்ள தமிழ் மக்களை திருப்திபடுத்தும் என்பது பல ஆண்டுகளாக நான் கூறிவரும் கருத்து என வைகோ மேலும் கூறினார்.
எந்தவொரு பயங்கரவாத இயக்கத்துக்கும் அதிமுக ஆதரவு தராது என அக்கட்சியின் பொதுச்செயலர் ஜெயலலிதா கூறி வருவது குறித்து வைகோவிடம் கேட்டபோது, அரசியல் கட்சிகள் ஒவ்வொரு பிரச்சினையையும் தங்களது சொந்த கொள்கைகளின்படிதான் அணுகும். அதிமுகவுக்கென்று ஒரு கொள்கை உள்ளது. மதிமுகவுக்கென்று ஒரு கொள்கை உள்ளது. இதனாலேயே எங்களுக்குள் ஒற்றுமை இல்லை என்று ஆகிவிடாது என்றார்.
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Karan Thapar:i> Explain this to me: What does Sonia Gandhi make of the fact that in public speeches in Chennai, you eulogise Prabhakaran, but in her eyes, he is the principle accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. How does she handle this?
Vaiko: You see, this issue is a very emotional issue and this doesn't come in the way of our cordiality.
Karan Thapar: So once again you have agreed to disagree?
Vaiko: Yes, absolutely.
Karan Thapar: What about the fact that there's a statement on your website that clearly suggests that Rajiv Gandhi in 1989 - during the run up to the India Sri Lanka accord - deliberately misled Prabhakaran, that he even entrapped Prabhakran. Is Sonia Gandhi aware that your website says this?
Vaiko: I don't know if she is aware or not, but what I have said is part of history.
Karan Thapar: And you stand by it?
Vaiko: I stand by it.
Karan Thapar: And you are still prepared to support Congress as well?
Vaiko: Yes.
Karan Thapar: So there's no contradiction.
Vaiko: There is no contradiction with my coalition with the AIADMK in Tamil Nadu, and my support for the LTTE.
Karan Thapar: How do you account for the fact that the two parties you support - in Chennai and in Delhi - both regard LTTE as a terrorist. Jayalalitha as recently as September 12, 2006 said to PTI that AIADMK won't support a terrorist organistaion like the LTTE. Why is she your ally?
Vaiko: Political parties have their own individual approach for every problem, otherwise there's no need for political parties.
Karan Thapar: Who is important for you - Jayalalithaa or LTTE?
Vaiko: AIADMK is entitled to their own views, MDMK is entitled to it's own views, but that doesn't mean that we have differences.
Karan Thapar: So you have agreed to disagree over the LTTE?
Vaiko: See, we have agreed to disagree on certain issues - in any coalition, every political party has its own independent identity and views.
(The interview will be broadcast on Sunday, December 3 at 2030hrs IST and on December 4, Monday at 1630 hrs IST.)
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Karan Thapar: Let us turn to your constantly changing political commitments, what the press call, your flip-flops. I am going to ask you a blunt question: Are you an opportunist who seeks allies for personal gain and personal convenience rather than ideologies?
Vaiko: I am committed to ideologies. In India, political parties make new permutations and combinations and change alliances. DMK was with the BJP and now, they are with the Congress.
Karan Thapar: You say you are committed to ideologies. Let me point this out: In 1998-99, you were with the BJP and the NDA. In 2004, you were with the Congress and the UPA; in 2006, you are with Jayalalithaa and the AIADMK. Do you change political allies like the rest of us change clothes?
Vaiko: I am consistent in my political views and ideologies.
Karan Thapar: But how do you explain three political parties in eight years?
Vaiko: Many political parties are compelled by circumstances to change sides. And here, we - the cadres, the rank and file and the entire party machinery - have deliberations and take a collective decision in our general counsel. I am not making any decision on my own. These are the views of my party.
Karan Thapar: It may well be a collective decision, but it does not make the decision more moral. In 2002, you called Jayalalithaa a ‘fascist’, you said that she had a ‘sadist mind’. In 2004, you said that this lady is trying to demolish all the cherished principles of the Dravidian movement. You, in fact, accused her of atrocities.
Vaiko: How has Dr Karunanidhi attacked the Congress, how was MISA used against the DMK, how have the DMK and Congress joined hands?
Karan Thapar: But if other people are chameleons and do not have moral anchors, is that any reason for Vaiko to be a chameleon too and to change sides every time the wind changes?
Vaiko: No, it is not like that.
Karan Thapar: But you are doing it. In 2004, you said Jayalalithaa was destroying the Dravidian movement, you accused her of atrocities. In 2006, you were campaigning to make her Chief Minister again. Aren’t you embarrassed by the political somersaults you take?
Vaiko: This is done according to the views of the cadres. And in political parties, when we make certain criticisms…
Karan Thapar: To me, it sounds like a bad excuse. You are saying that you didn’t decide to support her, your party insisted that you support her. In other words, you are blaming the cadres for a decision you took.
Vaiko: I also accepted the view as a correct decision.
Karan Thapar: And you are not embarrassed by the somersaults?
Vaiko: Then, all the political parties in India are making somersaults.
Karan Thapar: So, you are no better than anyone else?
Vaiko: Yes.
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Karan Thapar: Let us take up the DMK. You broke with the DMK over a difference of three seats. Are your political commitments so fragile that over something so small and fragile as three seats, you can break with the party?
Vaiko: No, it is not a question of three seats. It was the way in which we were humiliated by the DMK for two years and the way in which the DMK committed a fraud by using the strength of the MDMK to get ministerial berths in the UPA Government.
Karan Thapar: If humiliation is what drove you out of the embrace with the DMK, how come humiliation didn’t stop you from embracing Jayalalithaa? She arrested you in 2002 under POTA, she held you in jail for 18 months and she even wanted to ban the MDMK. She humiliated you more than the DMK.
Vaiko: DMK was about to be banned by the Congress and the worst sufferings we had were under MISA. Then, how did the DMK join hands with the Congress? Out of what necessity did the DMK join hands with the Congress? Kindly tell me.
Karan Thapar: So, is political convenience and compulsion is more important than commitment and ideology?
Vaiko:In politics, there are no permanent friends and no permanent enemies.
Karan Thapar: Is there only permanent self-interest?
Vaiko: No, permanent conviction for the cause of the people.
Karan Thapar: But you seem to identify the cause of the people with the AIADMK on one occasion, DMK on the next occasion and the Congress and then with the BJP. It seems to me that your idea of the interests of the people keeps changing.
Vaiko: No, I have not changed my ideologies or convictions no matter whichever party I had an alliance with.
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