Monday, Mar 19, 2012Dismissing as "non-committal" and "futile" Prime Minister ManmohanSingh's statement on India's stand on the US-backed resolution against Sri Lanka at UNHRC, Tamil NaduChief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday said it made no reference to alleged human rights violations by Colombo.
"He didn't make any reference to human rights violations. He has not said Sri Lanka will be condemned for these. This is a non-committal and futile reply," she said reacting to Singh's statement in the Lok Sabha today.
She said the PM had only said while he did not have the final draft of the resolution, "India was inclined to vote for it and that its objective was to ensure equality, self-respect and dignity for the future of the Tamils."
Taking a dig at her arch rival DMK chief M Karunanidhi for announcing a fast and party high-level committee meeting on the Sri Lankan issue, which he later withdrew citing Singh's reply, she said he had enacted a drama.
With parties in Tamil Nadu including UPA's key ally DMK mounting pressure to support the US resolution in United Nations Human Rights Council against Lanka for its alleged war crimes, the Prime Minister told the LokSabha that India was "inclined to" vote in favour of the resolution which meets "our objectives" with regard to the future of ethnic Tamils.
Jayalalithaa said there was no response from the Prime Minister on her two letters to him on the issue.
His failure to make any mention about violation of human rights by Sri Lanka was "regrettable", she said.
Attacking Karunanidhi, she said he had staged a similar drama in 2009 at the height of the conflict between Sri Lankan armed forces and the LTTE by staging a fast only to call it off claiming that Home Minister P Chidambaramhad conveyed to him that a cease fire had been declared.
The situation is similar now with the DMK chief having called off the proposed fast based on the Prime Minister's statement, she, said addingKarunanidhi would do well not to "re-enact
