TESO ATTACKS CENTRE, CONGRESS OVER LANKA

The DMK-led Tamil Eelam Supporters Organisation (TESO) on Saturday launched a frontal attack on the Central Government of India and the ruling Congress over divergent positions on the USled resolution at the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC).

It comes two days after parties staged walkout from the Lok Sabha over External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid’s refusal to give a definitive answer to the discussion on the plight of Sri Lankan Tamils.

“We are now coming very close to a state when we can no longer watch in silence as the Central government and Congress continue to dillydally on the issue,” the TESO statement said, pointing out that Khurshid had failed to say anything definitive while that very evening, party general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad prom-

It comes two days after parties staged walkout from the Lok Sabha over External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid’s refusal to give a definitive answer on the plight of Sri Lankan Tamils

ised support for the UNHRC resolution while speaking at the TESO conference in New Delhi. The next day, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh too shied away from making any promises in his Rajya Sabha speech.

The youth wing of the Congress burnt portraits of Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy decrying his ‘anti-Tamil attitude’ for ‘trying’ to shield the Sri Lankan government from an international enquiry into the genocide of ethnic Tamils.

(Express News Service)