New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Monday termed the central government’s decision to send a team of MPs exclusively of the ruling coalition in Tamil Nadu to Sri Lanka to observe the condition of displaced Tamils living in camps there as “partisan”.
The central government selected the delegation “without taking MPs from the opposition parties like AIADMK in Tamil Nadu”, a statement from the CPI-M politburo said.

“On such an issue as the welfare of the Tamil minority people in Sri Lanka, there should be no partisan approach,” the statement said.

Hundreds of thousands of Tamils are living in refugee camps in Sri Lanka after the end of a quarter century long bloody war between the government and Tamil Tigers fighting for a separate homeland.

The civil war ended in May when the Sri Lankan army killed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam chief V. Prabhakaran and the entire top LTTE leadership.