Katchatheevu issue: Karunanidhi denies Jayalalithaa’s charge
May 5, 2013 01:37 am
Joining issue with his archrival and Tamil Nadu Chief
Minister J Jayalalithaa over the Katchatheevu issue, DMK chief M Karunanidhi on
Saturday denied her charge that he did not take any effort to retrieve the
islet ceded to Sri Lanka by India.
A day after the agreement was signed four decades ago, he had
convened an all-party meeting where a resolution was adopted against it,
Karunanidhi said.
AIADMK had, however, not signed the resolution,
he said in a letter to his partymen. Karunanidhi was Chief Minister of the
state then.
In pursuant to that resolution, he had written
to the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi expressing “disappointment,” over
India’s move and sought “appropriate action,” taking into consideration the
all-party resolution.
He recalled he had also moved a resolution in
this regard then, which was adopted by Tamil Nadu assembly while taking up the
issue with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2006 also, recalling a resolution
passed by the assembly in 1991 during AIADMK rule.
On Friday, Jayalalithaa asked what action
Karunanidhi had taken to retrieve the tiny islet.
Karunanidhi said his party had never shied away
from the issue and his partymen had taken up the matter in Parliament also,
soon after the ceding. (PTI)
