G. K. Dashigan
Gowtham Komathan Dashigan is a Tapakdi politician who leads the Tapakdi Munnetra Kazhagam political party. A lifelong republican and Tapakdi nationalist, he opposes the monarchy of Tapakdore for its autocratic nature and for being an obstacle to the total emancipation of the Tapakdi people, an euphemism for the expulsion of all non Tapakdi from the country. He also is a determined foe of Burgundie for its historic colonization and economic exploitation of Tapakdore. Dashigan and his TMK party were proscribed in 2003 for their extremist ethnic views and opposition to the monarchical system. Most TMK cadres either abandoned the party or were imprisoned during the following crackdown, only Dashigan and the movement's hard core escaped into exile first in Pukhgundi and later Rusana.
G. K. Dashigan | |
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| President of the Tapakdi Munnetra Kazhagam | |
| In office 1 January 1992 – Present | |
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| Born | 22 March 1962 Midai, Tapakdore |
| Political party | Tapakdi Munnetra Kazhagam |
| Residence | Rusana |
| Profession | Politician |
Political views
Dashigan is one of the fathers of modern Tapakdi supremacist ideology. From his earliest writings in the nationalist newspaper Tēcattiṉ Kural and public speeches, Dashigan has always maintained that the presence of Peshabis and Kashmiris on Tapakdore is entirely illegitimate. Their presence is explained as a deliberate insertion by the colonizing Great Villain to dilute Tapakdi strength and surround it with a ring of internal oppressors and collaborators. The monarchy and Buddhism are other foreign implanted mechanisms to aid in keeping Tapakdi communalism and brotherhood subjected through the false mantras of multiculturalism, multilingualism and interconnectedness. A prospective revolution with the TMK acting as the sword of the nation would put an end to the monarchy and multiculturalism, with non-Tapakdis deported back to Umardwal and Pukhgundi where they belong; afterwards the TMK would inaugurate a true republican regime in which all Tapakdis have a democratic stake. Dashigan believes that the path of internal reform has been closed and only armed struggle remains to achieve the true independence of Tapakdore. The final step of TMK ideology would also involve a reorganization of the country's land borders to gather supposedly ethnic Tapakdi lands unjustly held by Pukhgundi.
Exile
After the government's outlawing of the TMK, Dashigan and a core of some 600 loyalists headed east into the Machhapuchhre mountains near the border with Pukhgundi where they attempted to organize an armed uprising. The attempt failed spectacularly as the locals refused to get involved and the Army of the Mounted Men attacked the TMK relentlessly. On November 2003 Dashigan and the remnants of the TMK retreated into Pukhgundi in the deep of the night, where they were interned until 2007. A Pukhgundti lower court ordered the release of the TMK members on condition they leave the country within five days, a decision protested by Tapakdore. After his release, Dashigan and his supporters immediately flew to Rusana, a nation friendly to one of Burgundie's most important detractors, the Republic of Daxia.