To persistent queries on the reported remarks, Ahamed said, "I have not gone through the reports. Moreover, it is not fair to make comments on remarks made by a minister in another country".
"I do not want to make any comments on this issue", he said.
Taking objection to the reported remarks, DMK chief M Karunanidhi had asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take up the issue with Colombo saying Tamils were "perturbed" over the matter.
"It has come to our notice that Sri Lankan Cabinet Minister Champika Ranawaka has threatened that one Mullivaikal (where Tamil civilians were reportedly killed in large numbers during the war against LTTE) was enough and that no one should try to get hundred more", Karunanidhi, whose party is a key UPA constituent, had said in a faxed message to Singh yesterday.
On the water row between Tamil Nadu and Kerala, in view of the ongoing tussle over Mullaperiyar reservoir and the plan to construct a dam across Siruvani river, Ahamed said the Prime Minister had already initiated measures to resolve the inter-state water disputes.
"We stood by and will continue to stand by him (Prime Minister)", Ahamed said.
To a question on increasing the number of Passport Seva Kendras, he said that in the second phase the ministry was in the process of preparing the list of locations where there were a large number of passport seekers.
Since it took nearly three to four years to set up 77 such Kendras from conception to implementation stage, the ministry would not be able to give any time frame for the beginning and completion of Kendras in the second phase, he said.
