NEW DELHI: Senior Congress chief P Chidambaram on Saturday mentioned the ruling BJP has been elevating the “closed subject” of Katchatheevu to realize political floor forward of the Lok Sabha polls, which might “gravely hurt the pursuits of the tens of millions of Tamil-speaking individuals in Sri Lanka“.
Chidambaram mentioned the difficulty could create a scenario of confrontation between the Tamils and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka.
“Modi and his ministers know that they may gravely hurt the pursuits of the tens of millions of Tamil-speaking individuals dwelling in Sri Lanka in the event that they create a scenario of confrontation between the Sri Lankan authorities and the Tamils or between the Sinhalese and Tamils, but they elevate a closed subject for apparent political and electoral causes, which is unhappy and condemnable”, claimed the Congress Rajya Sabha MP.
Questioning the BJP’s timing in raking up the difficulty, Chidambaram mentioned the saffron celebration has raised it for “apparent political and electoral causes” and to divert individuals’s consideration from “Chinese language troops occupying Indian territory“.
“Katchatheevu is a closed subject. The settlement was reached 50 years in the past. Modi has been in workplace since 2014; why did he not elevate the difficulty within the final 10 years?” questioned the previous Union minister.
“It’s being raised now within the mild of the truth that Chinese language troops are occupying Indian territory, a number of of our patrol factors have been barred, and the Chinese language are fortifying the border to their benefit,” he mentioned.
A number of days in the past, Congress chief Digvijay Singh, had dismissed the Katchatheevu Island subject as “utter nonsense”.
“Does anybody stay there? That is utter nonsense. PM Modi talks baseless,” Digvijay Singh had mentioned.
‘Congress is shamelessly justifying anti-national misdeeds’: PM Modi
Retorting to Digvijay Singh’s comment, PM Modi lashed out at him, asking “If somebody doesn’t stay then ought to it’s given away?”
Addressing a rally in Rajasthan’s Karauli, the Prime Minister slammed the Congress for “shamelessly justifying anti-national misdeeds”.
“The Congress is shamelessly justifying anti-national misdeeds. Yesterday, a Congress chief requested, ‘Does anybody stay there?’. If somebody doesn’t stay then ought to it’s given away? Then what’s going to you name the desert? For them, a vacant a part of the nation is only a piece of land,” mentioned PM Modi in a veiled assault on Digvijaya Singh.
PM Modi lambasted the Congress, saying the celebration can “give vacant land of a border state like Rajasthan to any nation”.
Katchatheevu controversy
The choice of the Indira Gandhi authorities at hand over Katchatheevu to Sri Lanka in 1974 took centre stage within the Lok Sabha marketing campaign in Tamil Nadu and past after official paperwork and information of Parliament confirmed how a vacillating India misplaced the battle for management of the island in Palk Strait to a smaller nation decided to wrest it.
Chidambaram mentioned the difficulty could create a scenario of confrontation between the Tamils and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka.
“Modi and his ministers know that they may gravely hurt the pursuits of the tens of millions of Tamil-speaking individuals dwelling in Sri Lanka in the event that they create a scenario of confrontation between the Sri Lankan authorities and the Tamils or between the Sinhalese and Tamils, but they elevate a closed subject for apparent political and electoral causes, which is unhappy and condemnable”, claimed the Congress Rajya Sabha MP.
Questioning the BJP’s timing in raking up the difficulty, Chidambaram mentioned the saffron celebration has raised it for “apparent political and electoral causes” and to divert individuals’s consideration from “Chinese language troops occupying Indian territory“.
“Katchatheevu is a closed subject. The settlement was reached 50 years in the past. Modi has been in workplace since 2014; why did he not elevate the difficulty within the final 10 years?” questioned the previous Union minister.
“It’s being raised now within the mild of the truth that Chinese language troops are occupying Indian territory, a number of of our patrol factors have been barred, and the Chinese language are fortifying the border to their benefit,” he mentioned.
A number of days in the past, Congress chief Digvijay Singh, had dismissed the Katchatheevu Island subject as “utter nonsense”.
“Does anybody stay there? That is utter nonsense. PM Modi talks baseless,” Digvijay Singh had mentioned.
‘Congress is shamelessly justifying anti-national misdeeds’: PM Modi
Retorting to Digvijay Singh’s comment, PM Modi lashed out at him, asking “If somebody doesn’t stay then ought to it’s given away?”
Addressing a rally in Rajasthan’s Karauli, the Prime Minister slammed the Congress for “shamelessly justifying anti-national misdeeds”.
“The Congress is shamelessly justifying anti-national misdeeds. Yesterday, a Congress chief requested, ‘Does anybody stay there?’. If somebody doesn’t stay then ought to it’s given away? Then what’s going to you name the desert? For them, a vacant a part of the nation is only a piece of land,” mentioned PM Modi in a veiled assault on Digvijaya Singh.
PM Modi lambasted the Congress, saying the celebration can “give vacant land of a border state like Rajasthan to any nation”.
Katchatheevu controversy
The choice of the Indira Gandhi authorities at hand over Katchatheevu to Sri Lanka in 1974 took centre stage within the Lok Sabha marketing campaign in Tamil Nadu and past after official paperwork and information of Parliament confirmed how a vacillating India misplaced the battle for management of the island in Palk Strait to a smaller nation decided to wrest it.
The paperwork, obtained by TN BJP chief Okay Annamalai via an RTI software, carry out Sri Lanka making up for its lack of measurement with tenacious pursuit of the 1.9 sq. km of land about 20km from Indian shore primarily based on claims which New Delhi contested for many years solely to acquiesce to lastly.
Sri Lanka, then Ceylon, pressed its declare proper after Independence, when it mentioned Indian Navy (then Royal Indian Navy) couldn’t conduct workouts on the island with out its permission. In Oct 1955, Ceylon Air Drive held its train on the island.
Its stance was mirrored in a minute by first PM Jawaharlal Nehru on Could 10, 1961, who dismissed the difficulty as inconsequential.
(With PTI inputs)
