Karunanidhi to take up Sri Lankan Tamils issue with PM again
CHENNAI: A week after asking the
Centre to press Colombo for solving "once and for all" the problems of Tamils in
Sri Lanka, DMK president and chief minister M Karunanidhi on Saturday decided to
take up the issue again with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
This was
decided at a meeting of ministers and officials chaired by Karunanidhi to
discuss various resolutions adopted at last week's World Classical Tamil
Conference, a government release here said.
Chief Secretary K S
Sripathy had already written to External Affairs Secretary in this regard, the
release said.
Further, Karunanidhi is scheduled to write to Prime
Minister asking the Centre to impress upon Colombo to find a solution to the
decades-long ethnic issue, it said.
Other decisions taken today
include proposing a resolution in Parliament for declaring Tamil a
constitutional language, pressing the Centre to make Tamil as court language at
Madras High Court and seeking increased grants for development of
Tamil.
It was also proposed to set up a separate Ministry in the
state to look after welfare of Tamils in foreign countries and development of
Tamil language in these countries, it said.
