Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has invited Chief Minister M Karunanidhi to Colombo to apprise him of the ethnic Tamils issue, according to Tamil MP from the island nation Arumuga Thondaiman.. ‘An official invitation in this regard will be sent very soon,’ said Thondaiman, who called on Karunanidhi’s daughter and Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi yesterday.
The Lankan MP reportedly discussed with her the relief and rehabilitation measures to be taken up for the affected Tamils in the island nation.
Lanka should devolve powers to Tamils: Chidambaram Meanwhile, speaking to reporters after meeting Karunanidhi in Chennai yesterday, Union Home P Chidambaram said Sri Lanka should devolve powers to Tamils in line with the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord and ‘if possible go even beyond that.’
‘The Sri Lankan government should implement the 13th amendment of the Indo-Lankan Accord on devolution of powers.... if possible go beyond that,’ he said.
Chidambaram said the Lankan government should strictly proceed towards rehabilitating the Tamils. India, he said, too was working for the internally displaced Tamils and had donated large sums of money.
Chidambaram, who called on Karunanidhi for the first time after taking charge as Home Minister in the new UPA government, said he met the DMK chief to get ‘inputs on what he was thinking and what has to be done for Lankan Tamils and how to rehabilitate them as well as how we should be proceed in this regard’.
He said he would present Karunanidhi’s ‘thoughts’ at the Union Cabinet meeting.
Seeman heads human chain in B’lore
A ‘human chain rally’ was organised in Bangalore on Sunday under the auspices of ‘Karnataka Tamil Makkal Iyyakkam’ seeking to mobilise public support for the rehabilitation of displaced Tamils in Sri Lanka.
KTMI President C Rajan demanded that rehabilitation be done under the supervision of the United Nations, International Red Cross and international NGOs. Tamil film director Seeman
was the chief guest at the rally.
CPI(M) for equal rights for Tamils
CPI(M)’s State unit on Sunday appealed to the Sri Lankan government and international community to play a collective role in ensuring peaceful life to the Tamils affected due to the war between the nation’s Army and the LTTE besides giving equal rights to them on par with the Sinhalese.
A resolution in this regard was adopted at the party’s State Committee Meeting, a party release said.
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