(DM)NAMAKKAL (TN): Stepping up her pro-Eelam rhetoric, AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday said if the people elected a government at the Centre that headed what she said, she would ensure that the army was sent to Sri Lanka to create a separate ‘Tamil Eelam’ by force.
Answering critics, especially Congress spokesman Kapil Sibal, who had termed her call for carving out a separate homeland for Tamils in Sri Lanka as ‘anti-national and irresponsible’, Jayalalithaa told an election meeting in this western Tamil Nadu town that she would follow the same norms and provisions of international law that Indira Gandhi had used to win freedom for Bangladesh and sentiments Rajiv Gandhi had invoked while sending in troops to Sri Lanka. Full text
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