State BJP president K. Annamalai on Sunday said he hoped the government of Tamil Nadu would hand over the aid package to Sri Lanka to the Ministry of External Affairs to ensure smooth passage to Sri Lanka without insisting on delivering it directly, “politicising the standard protocols”.
In a statement he said the resolution passed by the Tamil Nadu Assembly urging the Union government to positively consider the request of the State government to immediately send food, essential commodities and life-saving medicines to the people of Sri Lanka, did not have the information about what India had already provided to Sri Lanka and was continuing to provide to the neighbouring nation.
Mr. Annamalai claimed that some of the recent actions of the Tamil Nadu government, especially during “Operation Ganga” (to bring back Indian students from Ukraine) were only aimed at scoring political mileage. “We are only afraid that this resolution shouldn’t turn out to be one such exercise. It is noteworthy that during “Operation Ganga”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ensured that every Indian awaiting rescue returned to our homeland,” he said.
