New Delhi
22 September 2006
The five-member Sri Lankan-Tamil lawmakers who were camping in
New Delhi for the last couple of days returned to Chennai on Friday after failing to get an
audience with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The parliamentarians, who are members of the pro-LTTE Tamil National Alliance (TNA),
flew out of the capital after the much sought after meeting with Manmohan Singh failed to
come off despite several hours of patient waiting during the day. There were indications
until late Thursday that a meeting would surely be held.
The MPs have given a memorandum meant for Prime Minister Singh to certain Indian
officials. The memorandum reportedly offers regrets over the assassination of former
prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and seeks close contact with New Delhi.
Although the TNA MPs could not meet the prime minister, or for that matter Tamil Nadu
Chief Minister M Karunanidhi before coming here, they got to interact with National
Security Advisor MK Narayanan on Thursday for almost 40 minutes and Union Minister
of State for External Affairs E Ahamed a day earlier. The MPs -- who also included G
Ponnambalam, K Premachandran and A Selvam -- also exchanged views with CPI
leaders AB Bardhan and D Raja.
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