Pillayan in India for talks

6 June 2010 02:42 pm

By Jamila Najmuddin


Eastern Province Chief Minister Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan is in India for talks with Indian officials following an invitation extended by the Indian government, a spokesman for the Chief Minister told Daily Mirror online.

Chandrakanthan was invited to India by Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao during the latter’s visit to Sri Lanka recently. Rao had met Chandrakanthan and discussed the developments in the East as well as a political solution to the Tamil issue.

The Eastern Province Chief Minister is leading a delegation to India which includes members of the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pullikal (TMVP), the political party led by Chandrakanthan, the spokesman said. (Daily Mirror online)