“To uphold the traditional rights of Tamil fishermen, necessary and concrete steps should be taken to find a permanent solution to this problem which continues to disturb the fishermen,” the Chief Minister told the External Affairs Minister. M. G. Stalin He wrote the letter on Tuesday.
On July 1, 25 fishermen from Tamil Nadu who were fishing in Bagh Strait and Gulf of Mannar were arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K.Stalin has written a letter to Foreign Minister Jaishankar on Tuesday (July 2) urging the Central Government to take appropriate measures to immediately release the fishermen and their fishing boats arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy. In that letter, he questioned what happened to the BJP’s election-time slogan of Khachathivu rescue.
Chief Minister M.K. In a letter written by Stalin, he said: “In recent weeks, incidents of arrests of fishermen from Tamil Nadu by the Sri Lankan Navy have increased to an unprecedented level. 25 fishermen from Tamil Nadu who were in two motorized country boats with registration numbers IND-TN-10-MO-1379 and IND-TN-09-MO-2327 and two unregistered fishing boats were captured by the Sri Lankan Navy on July 1.
Following the understanding between the then central government and the state government since 1974, the Chief Minister outlined what the Union External Affairs Minister Jaishankar had mentioned in his letter dated June 27, pointing out that the DMK-led state government was strongly opposed to the Kachchathivu Agreement at that time and its opposition was echoed in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly and Parliament. He mentioned that he wanted to.
Stating that it is well known that the state government was not properly consulted in this regard before the agreement was executed, the chief minister emphasized in his letter that it was the then central government that completely ceded Kachcha Island to Sri Lanka in a way that jeopardized the rights and interests of Indian fishermen and deprived them of them.
His leader, the then DMK Chief Minister M.K. Karunanidhi filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court in which he categorically stated that “when all the actions taken by the Central Government are unconstitutional, the sovereignty of Kachchathivi cannot be said to be a settled matter”. Stalin recalled in his letter.
Even though the BJP-led government is in power for the third consecutive term, Chief Minister M.K. has mentioned that the issue is being used only as an election slogan and it has not taken any meaningful effort to recover Kachchathivi. Stalin has said that it is the imperative of time to find a permanent solution to the woes faced by fishermen from Tamil Nadu.
Therefore, in order to uphold the traditional rights of Tamil Nadu fishermen, Union Minister of External Affairs S. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K.Stalin emphasized in the letter written to Jaishankaru.
