JAYALLITHA WANTS TO GO TO COURTS TO GET KATCHATEEVU
Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana
In another apparent headline and vote catching attempt for her AIADMK in the coming elections Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister Jayalalitha said she will soon go the Supreme Court seeking that the 1974 and 1976 accords under which Katchateevu islet that was ceded to Sri Lanka by the Central government of India was illegal.
Jayalalitha said she wants to pave the way for the retrieval of the people less parched sandy island in her latest anti-Sri Lanka move.
Tamil Nadu government on Saturday said it has decided to move the Supreme Court for expediting a pending case seeking that the 1974 and 1976 accords under which Katchatheevu islet was ceded to Sri Lanka by India be declared illegal to pave way for its retrieval back to India.
Chief Minister Jayalalithaa said she chaired a review meeting on Friday with the Chief Secretary and other officials from relevant departments including Revenue where the decision was taken.
“It was decided in the meeting that the Tamil Nadu government will file a petition in the Supreme Court seeking to expedite the case (filed by her in 2008 and in which the Revenue Department impleaded itself later) seeking declaration of the agreements illegal,” she said.
The decision was taken following the attacks on Indian fishermen by Sri Lankan navy which “continue unabated,” Ms. Jayalalithaa said in statement.
Katchatheevu in the Palk Straits has come into focus with Tamil Nadu fishermen alleging frequent attacks by the Sri Lankan Navy on them when they for fishing near the islet.
Ms. Jayalalithaa has also repeatedly spoken of the fishermen’s “traditional fishing rights” there while pitching her case with the Centre for its retrieval from Sri Lanka.
She had filed a case in the Supreme Court in 2008 in this regard, and after her party was elected to power last year, had moved a resolution in the Assembly seeking to implead the Revenue Department in the case.
Earlier, she was involved in chasing out Sri Lankan soccer teams who were there playing friendly games with certain Chennai teams in a frenzy.
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She does not have a proper f**k by M.G.Ramachandran. That is why she still aggressive.
Iam really surprised that the medaitor allows such crappy comments in this coloumn. I think we need to be a bit more a subtle about writing our thoughts.
Yes, Sisira,
But such comments look like a mirror of the our society. People not all but some are brutal and cruel including some educated, no matter how they are educated in the formal system.
Implementation of law in the country is also selectively active.For example a son of a minster can do any thing.
Come election time, Big Mama never tires of beating her drum against SL on behalf of TN fishermen or for autonomy for Tamils in SL. This is just electioneering gimmick to divert attention from her real problems at home in TN, i.e. increase in unemployment, hunger, poor education, poor health service, poor housing etc etc. Slums have increased by thousands. TN is the dirtiest State in India. Big Mama and her opponent dinosaur are rolling in wealth while the millions of poor are dying of hunger and ill-health in TN alone.
Pissu geni.
The TN politicians are whipping up anti Sri Lankan sentiments against the ruling sinhala buddhist fraternity.
The cause of Sri Lankan tamils is hot material in TN politics.
The Central Government of India stood by Sri Lanka when our valiant soldiers sacrificed life and limb in eliminating the terrorist scrooge which plagued our land for 3 decades.
We shouldn’t be overly worried about the current splurge in political propoganda for the tamil cause.
Hope troublemakers who attempt to wreck HE Mahinda rajapaksa’s forthcoming visit to lay the foundation for a buddhist univresity, are dealt with by the law and incarcerated for life.
chumpa no body rules this nation.roll back ur dreams.equally shared for SL ethics.do not say sinhala buddhist.
more over wheni was visiting some north tamil people, they asked my place of birth and they said that i am living in the singala area, i stared at them and said why you people are dividing this nation and according to the census population it is now approximately 22 and half million people living in this nation and when comparing to other countries this is very few of us. I against them and asked why you people are dividing this nation?
One side hindus say this is our nation and the right opposite sinhalese say that this nation belongs to us.
You 2 ethics are equal in religion wise right,yes of course, worshiping those silly well refined clays by making various figures, as well as names for each statue.
then why the hell these disputes among you?
silly bastards.
the vast statue worshipers are in india. these bastards does not know what they are doing.
dragging kaavadi in the name of those foolish senseless clays and making the roads dirty.
these distilled sri lankan hindus and buddhist idiots following them.
Hey Ashik,
You may say whatever; Sri Lanka has always been and forever will be a nation belonging to and ruled by the Sinhala Buddhists. Ashik, that’s history; that’s reality.
The rest of the scroungers who live in this land because of the accomodative nature of the Sinhala Buddhist inhabitants, better learn to accept the morsels which fall from our rich tables.
The current ruler, HE Mahinda Rajapaksa, is an overly generous man. He used the Sinhala army, with immense sacrifice from our Sinhala soldiers, to relase more than 300,000 tamils who were stuck in the vicious clutches of Velupillai Prabakaran more than 3 decades.
HE Rajapaksa used the lives and limbs of valiant sinhala buddhist youth to rescue not his own people but tamil aliens who had arrived in this land under the darkness of the sky from India. HE Rajapaksa’s kindness is immeasurable; he is a true sinhala buddhist.
So Mr Ashik, think and appreciate the good things you have because of the generosity of the Sinhala Buddhists of Sri Lanka.