Ramanathapuram fishers threaten to give up Indian citizenship if Centre does not secure release of TN fishers jailed in Lanka

A section of members of the All Mechanised Boats Fishermen Association who held a meeting in Rameswaram on Monday (Source: The Hindu)

Ramanathapuram district fishermen have threatened to submit all documents relating to their Indian citizenship to the district collector on February 2, if the Centre failed to secure the release of all the fishermen from Tamil Nadu lodged in Sri Lankan jails..

At a meeting of the All Mechanized Boats Fishermen Associations, led by its secretary, P. Sesuraja, held on Monday, the fishers expressed their anguish against the Sri Lankan government’s announcement of auctioning the boats of Tamil Nadu fishermen that were seized by the Sri Lankan Navy between 2015 and 2018.