Death of liberal democracy in Jaffna, a disaster
Sun Online Desk
19th April, 2021 08:59:25
No Tamil political leader in the post-Donoughmore period had single-handedly constructed an ideology and changed the course of national politics, almost overnight, as Ganapathipillai Gangaser Ponnambalam (November 8, 1901 – February 9, 1977).
Not only that, no one else has left such a lasting impact – albeit a divisive and devastating one -- with his ideology on the national scene as the politics engineered by him. He was, in his own way, an exceptional figure whose role has been overshadowed by his junior partner, S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, a charismatic figure who in reality extended and built on the ideology founded by him.