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    NTK leader Seeman ‘justifies’ Rajiv Gandhi’s killing, booked by police as Congress seeks action

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    Rajiv Gandhi was killed by an LTTE suicide bomber (Express Archive)

    Naam Tamizhar Katchi founder leader Seeman has triggered a row after he ‘justified' the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in his campaign speech for NTK candidate K Kandasamy in Vikravandi.

    In the election rally speech, a video of which has gone viral now, Seeman justified the assassination of Gandhi, who was killed by an LTTE suicide bomber on May 21, 1991 at nearby Sriperumbudur.

    Seeking action against Seeman, state Congress President KS Alagiri said “Tamils will never forget Seeman for advocating an organization that brutally killed the former Prime Minister.” His comment comes at a time when both the Tamil Nadu Government and other Tamil exclusivist groups are requesting the TN Governor to release the seven convicts of Rajiv Gandhi assassination case who are serving their sentence for the last 28 years.

    Alagiri added that Seeman's speech is disrupting the public peace and he should be booked with sedition. “Rajiv Gandhi was the one who took steps to eradicate the sufferings the Tamils faced in Sri Lanka for 40 years. The former PM sent the peace-keeping to save Tamils, but LTTE killed more than 2,000 Indian soldiers and Seeman is trying to hide their cowardly act. There can be no bigger anti-national than Seeman, the election commission should immediately suspend Naam Tamilar's recognition as a political party,” the Congress leader said in a…

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