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“Sri Lankan Tamils know who stood by them from beginning”
Special Correspondent
CHENNAI: Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi said on Tuesday that the Sri Lankan Tamils were fully aware as to who had stood by them from the beginning and who wavered in their support to the Tamil cause.
In a statement here, he said that from the beginning of the Sri Lankan crisis, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has been supporting Tamils in the island nation. Referring to the October 2 fast planned by some political parties in the State, he said this could be the reason for the Communist Party of India not inviting the DMK while inviting parties that did not support the Tamil cause or supported them half-heartedly.
Recalling the kind of support that the DMK had extended to Tamils, Mr. Karunanidhi said that following the party’s call for a rally for Sri Lankan Tamils, seven lakh people turned up the next day. Party MLAs resigned on the issue and the DMK government was dismissed in 1991 for supporting the Tamils.
“I do not have to recount all this to inform people anew,” he said and added that the DMK’s stand was made clear in a lengthy statement he made on the floor of the Assembly. He hoped that leaders who address the fast would also speak about the April 2008 resolution passed in the House on the Sri Lankan crisis.
On some parties criticising the Re.1 a kg rice scheme, he asked if they were willing to promise in their election manifestoes that they would discontinue the scheme if they came to power. He said that the parties were criticising it merely because the DMK government had implemented it.
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