Jayalalithaa reiterates demand for India's total boycott of CHOGM

In the last ten years, out of the 10 CHOGM, the Prime Minister had not attended five of them.

“Hence the Centre's present decision can only be seen as a routine one and neither giving any consolation to the Tamils nor respecting their sentiments,” she said in apparent attack on her bete noir DMK chief M Karunanidhi who had termed the Prime Minister's decision not to attend the meet as ‘some consolation'.

Urging the members to pass the “historically important” resolution unanimously, she recalled that in the two and half years since AIADMK came to power, three resolutions on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue had been passed in the assembly reflecting the sentiments of the people but the Centre had not taken any decision that was “favourbale” to Tamils.

The resolution read: “Respecting the sentiments and feeling of Tamils, even for namesake, none should represent India in the Commonwealth Summit. This House again demands of the Indian government that the country should boycott completely this CHOGM.”