CHOGM: Manmohan tells Rajapaksa he is not coming

Separately, many in India are upset that Sri Lanka has gone back on promises it made to New Delhi when the war was raging on devolving autonomy to the Tamil minority.

There have been two occasions since 1993 when India sent its external affairs minister to attend the Commonwealth summit.

In 1995 at Auckland, New Zealand, Pranab Mukherjee as external affairs minister led the Indian delegation. In 2002 in Coolum, Australia, it was Jaswant Singh as the external affairs minister who went in place of the prime minister.