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Jaya silent on Tamil fishermen issue: Karunanidhi

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Press Trust of India Chennai
Last Updated : Jan 24 2013 | 1:49 AM IST

"It is condemnable...Despite the Sri Lankan Navy chasing away the fishermen, they (state government) have not opened their mouth. Those who criticised our party's rule have now become mute spectators," he said to reporters' queries on a recent incident reportedly involving the island nation's navy.

The DMK patriarch said "atrocities" by the Lankan Navy had not stopped despite DMK's repeated requests to the Centre and talks on mutiple occasions over the fishermen's issue.

"If it had happened during DMK rule, AIADMK would have raised questions like: Is there a Centre? What are they doing? Why have they not resigned?" he said.

Sri Lankan naval personnel on June 17 allegedly threatened fishermen from Rameswaram at gunpoint near Katchatheevu and took away their catch, officials had said.

  

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First Published: Jun 19 2012 | 6:35 PM IST

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