Commonwealth Boycott
India Evading Rationale as Gothabaya Seems to Call for an International Inquiry
| by S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole
Indian Boycott of Summit
( November 10, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) After weeks of speculation over whether India’s Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh would attend the Commonwealth Summit in Colombo, in the late hours of Friday 8 Nov. 2013, Gulf News announced that “Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may skip the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) due to domestic political compulsions.” But the report kept the tension high, attributing the news to sources and saying there was nothing official.