Karunanidhi will be back after parliament resolution
Karunanidhi says he can reconsider pull out decision if Parliament adopts a resolution by March 21. This keeps door open for negotiations and end to the dram in next two days.
Karunanidhi told a press conference in Chennai he is pulling out of the government to express solidarity with Tamils in Sri Lanka. The DMK chief had asked for two amendments to the US-sponsored resolution at the United Nations Human Rights Commission meeting - global probe into the genocide of Tamils and action against the Lankan authorities for war crimes.
Yesterday, at a marathon two-and-a-half-hour meeting with Congress representatives and members of the central Cabinet -- finance minister P Chidambaram, defence minister A K Antony and health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad -- Karunanidhi stuck to his guns to work for a resolution censuring the Rajapaksa government and also demanded the passing of a resolution in Parliament along the lines of what the US had originally drafted for UNHRC.
"If whatever we want happens, then it means it has eased the pressure," he told reporters when asked about the prospect of a de-escalation of tensions.
"I have told them these amendments should be adopted through a resolution in Parliament. They assured me they would do the needful," he added.
Why
UPA
is
afraid
of
Lanka
resolution?
UPA
government
is
wary
of
supporting
the
draft
prepared
by
the
US
in
during
the
vote,
expected
on
March
21,
in
UNHRC
on
Sri
Lanka,
because
it
considers
to
be
too
"intrusive".
It
is
at
odds
with
the
country's
consistent
stand
against
outside
intervention
in
the
internal
affairs
of
countries
and
fraught
with
the
risk
of
being
used
as
a
precedent
to
harass
India
over
Jammu
and
Kashmir
issue.
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