Majority in Tamil Nadu back LTTE

by admin
Apr 14, 2009
Majority of people in Tamil Nadu want the Indian government to support the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Sri Lanka, according to an opinion poll.
Asked if the Indian government should support the LTTE in Sri Lanka, 66 percent respondents said yes, the NDTV said in a release Tuesday, March 31, revealing the findings of the opinion survey.
The survey also showed that Chief Minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi of DMK and Leader of Opposition Jayalalitha Jayaram of AIADMK are in a neck-to-neck race to be the next chief minister, with 41 percent and 40 percent respondents backing them respectively.
The poll conducted by NDTV was part of an all-India and state-wide poll to understand the key concerns of the voters.
Meanwhile, another state-wide poll conducted by Ananda Vikatan, a popular weekly in Tamil Nadu, showed that the people in Tamil Nadu identified support for LTTE as the top most policy change that would make them vote for Jayalalitha in the coming elections.
 

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