Colombo: Slain LTTE Supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran's ailing mother could be sent to Tamil Nadu for treatment, if the Indian government grants permission, a distant relative of the family and the rebel Tamil National Alliance leader MK Sivajilingam said here on Saturday.
"We are considering sending Prabhakaran's mother Parvathi Velupillai to Tamil Nadu for medical treatment if granted permission, even as arrangements are being made to send her to Canada to live with her daughter", Sivajilingam, who contested unsuccessfully as an Independent candidate during the January 26 Presidential Elections said here.
Parvathi Velupillai is currently in Malaysia with her relatives waiting to be sent to Canada from there.
Sivajilingam, who arranged for the funeral of Prabhakaran's father Thiruvengadam Veluppillai in Velvettithurai in Jaffna Peninsula in January this year said it could take two or three months for Parvathi to get visa to go to Canada.
Prabhakaran's sister Vinothini Rajendran lives in Canada.
It may be recalled that during a recent interaction Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa had stated that the late LTTE leader's mother was free to go to India if New Delhi so permitted. Sivajilingam said he arrived in Sri Lanka on March 8 from Singapore where Parvathi Velupillai was handed over to some relatives to be taken to Malaysia.
"We are applying for Canadian (stay permit) visa from Malaysia and it could take two or three months to get it", Sivajilingam said adding that in case they were not successful in sending her to India for medical treatment or Canada for a permanent stay, then she would be brought back to Sri Lanka.
In case Parvati Velupillai gets the go ahead to stay in Canada from the authorities, then Prabhakaran's sister is expected to pick her mother from Malaysia, he said.
The mother of the late LTTE chief, who is in her late 70s, is suffering from paralysis for the last few years. After the end of war against LTTE in May last year, she lived with her husband at a welfare camp in Vavuniya.
They were then brought to the military camp in Panagoda near Colombo.
After the death of her husband, Thiruvengadam Velupillai, Sivajilingam was given the custody of the late LTTE chief's mother.
In reply to a query, Sivajilingam said he had differences with Prabhakaran for a long time, though the slain LTTE chief used to visit his house in Velvettihurai as he was a distant relative.
Sivajilingam along with rebel TNA MP from Jaffna, N Sri Kantha, and a few others have formed a new alliance to contest the April 8 general election in all districts in the Northern and Eastern Provinces under the Leftist Liberation Front of Dr Wickramabahu Karunaratna.
PTI
First Published: Saturday, March 13, 2010, 15:44