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Jaya sends another letter to PM on Lankan Navy issue
June 17, 2016
Back from her one-day trip to New Delhi, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, J. Jayalalithaa has sent yet another letter to the Prime Minister, pleading him to intervene and put an end to the frequent arrest of Indian fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy.
Referring to the arrest of three fishermen and their mechanized fishing boat from the Kottaipattinam fishing base in Pudukottai district on June 15 by the Sri Lankan Navy, she added that the prolonged seizure of the mechanized boats makes them unfit for use.
Accusing the Sri Lankans of not acknowledging the Indian fishermen’s rights to fish in the traditional territories of the Palk Bay, Jayalalithaa blamed the “ill-advised” Indo-Sri Lankan accord of 1974 and 1976, “which unconstitutionally ceded Katchatheevu to Sri Lanka”
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister once again urged the Centre and the Ministry of External Affairs to secure the release of the Indian fishermen (the count has now reached 24) and 93 fishing equipment and boats.
