Tamil Nadu government today asked the Center to drop its proposal to
sell two naval warships to Sri Lanka, Indian media reported.
In a letter to the Prime Minister today the Indian Business
Standard quoted, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa as saying
there is a deep and widespread sentiment prevailing amongst all sections
of Society and shades of political opinion in Tamil Nadu about the need
to hold the Sri Lankan regime to account for the acts of genocide and
war crimes committed in the closing stages of the civil war and the
continued discrimination against the Tamil minorities in Sri Lanka who
are treated as second class citizens in their own country.
The Chief Minister according to Indian media reports also said the
Sri Lankan Navy are intensifying their actions against fishermen from
Tamil Nadu.
“Given the strength of the public sentiment in Tamil Nadu, I was
quite sure that the Government of India would not supply any military
hardware to Sri Lanka, particularly naval warships which could be
potentially deployed against Indian fishermen in the Palk Bay and the
Gulf of Mannar,” the Chief Minister had said in her letter.
