Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, M K Stalin and Mamata Banerjee, had a phone-call on February 13 and reaffirmed their commitment to upholding principles of state autonomy and federalism, which they said were under attack from the BJP-led Union Government. Banerjee proposed a conclave of Chief Ministers of the states ruled by the parties opposed to the BJP and
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updated: Feb 21 2021, 01:48 ist
A life-long opponent of the now-defunct Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and not-so-friendly with ethnic Tamils in Sri Lanka, the late J Jayalalithaa projected herself as a saviour of the race by making the last phase of the 30-year-old civil war in the neighbouring country her party’s major plank during the 2009 Lok Sabha polls.
She put the DMK and Congress, who were the ruling coalition at the Centre, on the mat, accusing them of aiding the Sri Lankan military to “kill lakhs of Tamils”, and even promised to march the Indian Army into the neighbouring country to “liberate” the northern part of the island-nation if a Third Front government was voted to power.
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