India can’t cut off ties with Lanka, PM tells Vaiko

[Skyline]

Manmohan Singh on Tuesday told MDMK leader Vaiko that India cannot afford to restrict economic ties with Sri Lanka — as demanded by Tamil Nadu’s political parties — in order to apply pressure to mitigate the sufferings of Sri Lankan Tamils.

That, the Prime Minister said, would only encourage China to displace India as a strategic and trading partner of Sri Lanka.
In response, Vaiko, who met the PM in Parliament House, said he told Singh that “in any case, China is already aiding the Sri Lanka naval forces to attack Indian fishermen and is more of an ally of Pakistan than India”.

Since the assembly polls, Tamil Nadu politicians have been trying to beat one another in taking up the plight of Lankan Tamils living in camps and Indian fishermen following the May 2009 war, which liquidated Tamil Tigers led by LTTE chief V Prabhakaran.

Vaiko said in a statement that he also took up with PM the case of death row convict Perarivalan in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, saying it could be considered on the lines of another convict, Nalini, whose death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.

Perarivalan has already spent 20 years in prison, Vaiko said.

The PM agreed to ask the home ministry to look into the case. Vaiko also met home minister P Chidambaram.

Vaiko’s meeting with the PM took place a day after Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa announced a monthly dole of R1,000 to 5,544 Lankan Tamils living in refugee camps in the state.

On Monday, ADMK MPs tried to embarrass a visiting Sri Lankan parliamentary delegation by raising slogans.

DMK MP Tiruchi Siva also staged a walkout from a meeting in honour of the visiting team hosted by vice-president Hamid Ansari, in protest against the “violence and human rights violations” by the Lankan government.

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They say SL Navy attacks their fishermen, now they added China with that. Also fears about Pakistan...

 

[Mosamania]

Really as I said before WTF India???

I say this with the utmost respect and I hope this does not offend anyone but why does India keep trying to piss off every nation around it?? I really think they secretly want to annex all the countries around it and absorb it into India but...don't you have enough people already who you can barely feed??

Again no pun intended and I do not mean to start a flame war in any sort of way but I am very perplexed that's all.

 

[Roybot]

Really as I said before WTF India???

I say this with the utmost respect and I hope this does not offend anyone but why does India keep trying to piss off every nation around it?? I really think they secretly want to annex all the countries around it and absorb it into India but...don't you have enough people already who you can barely feed??

Again no pun intended and I do not mean to start a flame war in any sort of way but I am very perplexed that's all.

You should hear the other side of the story before coming to any such conclusion. Just cause India is big doesn't automatically makes her a bully.

 

[Mosamania]

You should hear the other side of the story before coming to any such conclusion. Just cause India is big doesn't automatically makes her a bully.

It is just coming from my observation that Pakistan, Bangladish and even Sri Lanka are somehow angry at India is all.

 

[luckyyy]

china will soon deploy militry & missiles in lanka , like the russian did with cuba against US..

 

[Roybot]

It is just coming from my observation that Pakistan, Bangladish and even Sri Lanka are somehow angry at India is all.

Think about the sorta Bangladeshi and Srilankans, a Pakistani internet forum would attract?

Besides a lot of them here are False flags.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

Really as I said before WTF India???

I say this with the utmost respect and I hope this does not offend anyone but why does India keep trying to piss off every nation around it?? I really think they secretly want to annex all the countries around it and absorb it into India but...don't you have enough people already who you can barely feed??

Again no pun intended and I do not mean to start a flame war in any sort of way but I am very perplexed that's all.

Vaiko is a marginal politician of Tamilnadu.

He is pro Sri Lankan Tamils.

Can Pakistan stop Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the leader of the pro-Taliban Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl political party from speaking his mind out?

The same case with Vaiko.

Annexing countries in the neighbourhood that have their own huge problems would never be a good idea for India and so such a thought does not arise.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

china will soon deploy militry & missiles in lanka , like the russian did with cuba against US..

That will be the day!

Like the US wanted to have the Trincomalee Bay!

 

[Mosamania]

china will soon deploy militry & missiles in lanka , like the russian did with cuba against US..

I don't think china's main adversary is India. They have more pressing matters such as Tibet and Taiwan to take care of first and the road to get to Taiwan goes through the United Stated.

 

[Black Widow]

Really as I said before WTF India???

I say this with the utmost respect and I hope this does not offend anyone but why does India keep trying to piss off every nation around it?? I really think they secretly want to annex all the countries around it and absorb it into India but...don't you have enough people already who you can barely feed??

Again no pun intended and I do not mean to start a flame war in any sort of way but I am very perplexed that's all.

It will be better if third party don't put their nose in our matter...

 

[Mosamania]

It will be better if third party don't put their nose in our matter...

I apologize for my rudeness then. But if things go down and the goings gets up I will side with my Pakistani brothers but Until then I will remain as neutral as possible. Again sorry for my intrusions.

 

[Prometheus]

Damm our politians.........cant we simply send them to a island full of hungry tigers????

 

[harpoon]

It is just coming from my observation that Pakistan, Bangladish and even Sri Lanka are somehow angry at India is all.

Well contrary to popular beliefs India has friendly relationship with all our neighbours except China & Pakistan (for obvious reasons ofcourse). Citizens of Nepal, Maldives & Bhutan don't even need visa to visit India, not to mention India has an entire battalion of soldiers recruited from Nepal.

 

[harpoon]

Damm our politians.........cant we simply send them to a island full of hungry tigers????

I don't find anything wrong wrong with his comments. He is against ant economic sanction against SL, eventhough this is a man who went on a boat to SL to visit Prabhakaran and is fiercely pro-LTTE.

 

[Skyline]

I don't find anything wrong wrong with his comments. He is against ant economic sanction against SL, eventhough this is a man who went on a boat to SL to visit Prabhakaran and is fiercely pro-LTTE.

This is how India spreading terrorism in Sri Lanka in direct ways, They entered illegally and messed up here and return back. I just wonder why Indian law not applying for such activities. Most interesting thing is these type of people manage to cover up all their activities and can meet Indian PM.