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DMK’s high-level committee meet to discuss Lanka resolution

Party chief M Karunanidhi will chair the meeting on Tuesday morning at its headquarters here

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With India under pressure from Dravidian parties in Tamil Nadu to support a US-sponsored resolution in the UNHRC against Sri Lanka for alleged war crimes,UPA’s key constituent DMK today announced convening of its high-level committee on March 20 to discuss the issue.

Party chief M Karunanidhi will chair the meeting on Tuesday morning at its headquarters here,DMK general secretary K Anbazhagan said in a statement here.

The agenda at the meeting would be “India supporting the resolution on Sri Lankan army’s war crimes against Ealam Tamils,” he said.

DMK’s decision is being perceived as a pressure tactic as Karunanidhi had repeatedly stressed on India’s backing of the resolution at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

He had recently said DMK would consider it as a “betrayal of Tamils” New Delhi supporting Colombo even as a Sri Lankan official had claimed to have secured India’s support for it in UNHRC.

The high-level committee is scheduled at a time when DMK has been adopting a ‘blow-hot-blow-cold’ stand on its eight year-old ally Congress.

Asked if he would review his party’s support to the Centre if it failed to concede to its demand in the UNHRC,Karunanidhi had said he cannot take a decision by himself and that the executive would decide on it.

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