Jaffna MC wants to rewrite history

The Jaffna Municipal Council has appointed a five- member committee with the task of ascertaining whether the contents were accurate in a plaque put up at the Jaffna Library.

This was after a Tamil National Alliance member complained at the council meeting that a plaque at the entrance to the library gave “the wrong history.” He wanted it removed.

The Jaffna Library was set ablaze on May 31, 1981. It was renovated in 2003. TULF Leader Veerasingham Aanadasangaree was to declare it open.

However, the LTTE “ordered” that the Library should not be opened by Mr. Anandasangaree, an upright politician of yes- teryear and former MP for Kilinochchi. He was in the bad books of the LTTE. It was opened without a ceremony a year later. Hence a committee is now looking into the contents of the plaque before taking a decision.

The content on the plaque is as follows;

"This renovated Jaffna Public Library was declared open by Hon Veerasingham Anandasangaree, MP for Jaffna District and President TULF on 14th February, 2003 at the request of His Worship Sellan Kanthiyan, JPUM, Mayor of Jaffna in the presence o f Hon Municipal Councillors and Municipal Commissioner E. Ramalingam".