The decision was taken at the MDMK high level committee meeting in Chennai, attended by all district secretaries, which passed a resolution to quit the NDA, the alliance it had joined on the eve of 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
An 8- page resolution passed at the party’s various high level
committees squarely blamed the Narendra Modi-led Central government on
several accounts in dealing with the Sri Lankan Tamils issue.
Narendra Modi’s wishes to the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa for the
forthcoming presidential elections in the island nation topped the list
of accusations. “It was contrary to and deviated from the foreign policy
followed by India post-independence,” the resolution charged
Imposing Sanskrit, a long-dead language spoken by a few thousand, in
schools was with an evil intention, the resolution said, taking a dig at
the dangerous trend of Hindutva policies surfacing from the BJP camp
The Centre had also ignored the Tamil Nadu Assembly resolution seeking
economic sanctions against Sri Lanka and holding a referendum on the
formation of 'Eelam', an independent Tamil nation. The news that India
would support Sri Lanka in the United Nations Human Rights Council in
March 2015 was another shocker, the resolution said
While the Tamil Nadu Assembly had passed several resolutions demanding
the retrieval of Katchatheevu, the Centre’s submission before the
Madurai bench of the Madras High Court that Katchatheevu agreements was a
closed chapter and India has no rights over it was another betrayal,
especially when the Supreme Court was hearing the issue, the resolution said
Alleging that the release of five fishermen was a "drama" enacted by the
BJP and Sri Lankan governments, the resolution charged the Centre of
stage-managing the episode to strengthen ties with Sri Lanka.
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