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PM’s Sri Lanka resolution statement is evasive and useless: Jayalalithaa
Chennai, March 19: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Monday termed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s statement in parliament on the US resolution
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against Sri Lanka as “evasive” and “useless”.
She also accused DMK president M. Karunanidhi of “enacting a deceitful drama” of calling a meeting of the party’s high level committee Tuesday and announcing a hunger strike Thursday to urge the central government to vote in favour of the US resolution in the United Nation Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and then calling them off.
In a statement issued here, Jayalalithaa, referring to Singh’s statement in the Lok Sabha on the UN resolution, said: “The prime minister’s reply does not mention anything about the human rights violations. He did not say that Sri Lanka would be condemned for the human rights violations. This is just an evasive and useless reply.”
Replying to the debate on Motion of Thanks to the President for her address to the joint sitting of parliament, Singh said in the Lok Sabha: “As regards the issue of a draft resolution initiated by the United States at the ongoing 19th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, we do not yet have the final text of the resolution.
“However, I may assure the House that we are inclined to vote in favour of a resolution. That, we hope, will advance our objective, namely, the achievement of the future for the Tamil community in Sri Lanka that is marked by equality, dignity, justice and self-respect,” Singh added.
Jayalalithaa also charged the central government of remaining silent on the resolution passed by the Tamil Nadu assembly last June urging the former to approach the United Nations to declare those responsible for the “genocide” in the island country as war criminals and impose economic sanctions against the island nation till Tamils enjoy the same political rights there.
(IANS)