Karunanidhi stand on Lankan issue due to ‘election fever’ - Jayalalithaa

AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa today said by demanding a special envoy to study the condition of Tamils in Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi
had admitted that the assessment of the UPA MPs team, which visited the island nation some months ago,  was wrong.

Karunanidhi’s sudden change of heart in demanding a special envoy was due to “election fever”, she said.”By demanding that the Centre send a special envoy to the northern and eastern parts of Sri Lanka to assess the real situation, Karunanidhi candidly admitted that the UPA team had given a false report, she charged.

The UPA team, led by DMK MP T R Baalu and comprising among others Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi, had then said the internally displaced Tamils were well taken care of, Jayalalithaa alleged in a statement here.

Responding to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s letter seeking his views and advice on finding a solution to the ethnic issue, Karunanidhi had last week written to him suggesting a special envoy could be asked to assess the situation in the affected areas and the measures taken so far by the Lanka government to rehabilitate the nearly 40,000 displaced Tamils.

^PTI