Rajasingam Jeyadevan, popularly known as 'Undiyalaan' has embarked on a vicious campaign against Tamil and English language media networks that question financial irregularities at a London temple, sources said. Undiyalaan has developed a notorious habit of labelling any media network that questions financial irregularities at the Eelapatheeswarar Hindu temple in north-west London as being a proxy of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

According to Undiyalaan, any Tamil who wishes to know where money from the undiyal –money box- at the temple is heading is an intelligence agent of the LTTE.

Undiyalaan, who was a long time supporter of the LTTE, turned against the organisation when they asked him not to steal money from a religious institution, sources from the United Kingdom said.

His continued attempts to bribe the LTTE even landed him under custody in the de-facto state of Tamil Eelam.

Since his return from Sri Lanka, Undiyalaan has been hiding under the banner of democracy to prevent investigations into the temple funds, UK sources added.

Undiyalaan by appointing himself as leader of the Tamil Democratic Congress (TDC) a group founded by Undiyalaan himself in November 2005, and by releasing a few anti LTTE comments has attempted to portray anyone who questions his criminal activities as members of the LTTE.

Undiyalaan has been on a venomous campaign against the Nitharsanam.com Tamil language news website which was one of the first to report on financial irregularities at the above mentioned temple.

After numerous failed attempts to get the website banned by concocting claims against it, Undiyalaan has now turned his attention to include the English language Sibernews.com as well.

If one is to follow Undiyalaan's line of thinking, no media network should ever question exploitation of the Tamil community residing in the west. According to him no media station should condemn the paramilitaries who are hell bent on destroying the peace process on the island of Sri Lanka. If any media network does so, then it is operated by the LTTE.

Undiyalaan has also personally targeted Oslo based bilingual journalist Nadarajah Sethurupan. He continues to claim that Mr. Sethurupan is a member of the LTTE, and is working directly under the LTTE's intelligence leader.

When contacted by this reporter Mr Sethurupan dismissed Undiyalaan's allegation as being false propaganda with the sole aim of discrediting him as a professional journalist.

Mr Sethurupan said that he is a registered bi-lingual journalist who writes for Oslo Voice and other international media networks on his specialist area of Sri Lankan politics.

He also dismissed baseless allegations that he is a member of the LTTE, and re-emphasised that he had not travelled to the LTTE administered areas of Sri Lanka for several years. He also stressed the fact that unlike Undiyalaan, he was never a supporter of the LTTE.

'Mr Jeyadevan has a personal vendetta against me. I take a special interest in Tamil affairs in Europe, and had thus reported on the missing millions at the Eelapatheeswarar temple where Jeyadevan was chairman. One has to bear in mind that this happened when Mr Jeyadevan was an established supporter of the LTTE. Long before he went to Vanni and returned with anti-LTTE views, I was involved in exposing him. His claims that I only began writing about him after he expressed anti-LTTE views is a calculated lie,' said Mr Sethurupan.

What is clear from Mr Sethurupan's interview to this reporter is that Undiyalaan is hiding several issues related to finances at the above mentioned temple. He has also embarked on a campaign to label any media that question financial irregularities as agents of the LTTE. He has not spared professional journalists from this campaign either.

The best thing for Undiyalaan to do would be to attempt to prove the media reports to be wrong, rather than to allege the media as being proxies of the LTTE. If Mr Jeyadevan had not stolen from the temple, then he could simply publish the accounts and clear the issue.

For as long as Mr Jeyadevan remains silent on the issue of accounts, and attempts to cover up his crime with a banner of democracy, reports that expose him will continue to be published.

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