March 20, 2012 
A college student wearing a mask of Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is chained during a demonstration in Coimbatore Monday. —DC
With this, he also staved off a possible DMK desertion of his cabinet, besides combined wrath of political parties in Tamil Nadu and Tamil outfits who had announced bandhs and fasting on the issueBowing to Tamil sentiments expressed worldwide, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told Parliament Monday India was “inclined to vote” in support of a US-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka for alleged war crimes at United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC).
With this, he also staved off a possible DMK desertion of his cabinet, besides combined wrath of political parties in Tamil Nadu and Tamil outfits who had announced bandhs and fasting on the issue.
Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa, however, brushed aside the exuberance pointing out that PM had not come out clearly in support of the US resolution, nor did he condemn Sri Lanka for war crimes.
PM’s statement was evasive and useless and all that he did was to help ally and DMK chief M. Karunanidhi keep away from a daylong fast he announced Thursday to press for Indian support to the US resolution and call off Tuesday’s DMK high-level committee meet, she said. Full Story>>>
PM’s statement was evasive and useless and all that he did was to help ally and DMK chief M. Karunanidhi keep away from a daylong fast he announced Thursday to press for Indian support to the US resolution and call off Tuesday’s DMK high-level committee meet, she said. Full Story>>>
