‘PM, Karunanidhi’s letters on Sri Lankan Tamils’ plight a drama’
July 22nd, 2010 - 5:17 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, July 22 (IANS) The exchange of letters between Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the problems faced by Sri Lankan Tamils is a “drama turning out to be a mega serial,” AIADMK chief J.Jayalalithaa Thursday said.
“On the 3rd of July, he (Karunanidhi) penned a letter to the prime minister asking him to do something to save the Tamils of Sri Lanka. On the 9th of July, the prime minister sent a reply to Karunanidhi assuring him that the centre was ready to do whatever was necessary to resolve the ethnic crisis in Sri Lanka,” she said, according to a party statement here.
Citing Karunanidhi’s letter to the prime minister last week, Jayalalithaa termed it as an “open admission that the Sri Lankan Tamils are still in a state of acute distress”.
She said Karunanidhi, in his letter, had urged the rehabilitation of the internally displaced Tamils of Sri Lanka as of paramount importance and had suggested sending an envoy to assess the ground level situation in the island nation on rehabilitation measures.
She said Karunanidhi has now admitted that the assessment of the parliamentary delegation comprising of members from DMK, Congress and VCK sent earlier to assess the Tamils’ condition in Sri Lanka was untrue.
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