DMK president and Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on April 2 sought to know whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised the issue of the retrieval of the Katchatheevu island with his Sri Lankan counterpart even once during his 10-year rule.
Mr. Modi was now raking up the issue in view of the Lok Sabha poll, he claimed.
Addressing a public meeting at Vellore Fort in support of his party’s candidates, D.M. Kathir Anand (Vellore) and S. Jagathrakshakan (Arakkonam), Mr. Stalin said that Mr. Modi would have visited the Island nation several times as Prime Minister, but never raised the Katchatheevu issue on behalf of affected fishermen in Tamil Nadu. He wondered if Mr. Modi had at least condemned the arrest of Tamil fishermen and the impounding of their boats by Sri Lanka.
