BJP’s Dr. Seshadri rejects reports

National Convener of Foreign Policy Cell of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Dr. Seshadri Chari has rejected the news item carried in the Indian news Agency – PTI quoting him as saying that Sri Lanka should resolve the Tamil issue if trade ties between the two countries are to improve.

Dr. Chari who rejects the content that appeared in the PTI news item that has quoted him as saying, ‘We have told them (Sri Lanka) that you should resolve the Tamil issue if you want trade and commerce between Colombo and New Delhi (to progress),’ has pointed out in his letter to the PTI News Editor that the news item is ‘wrong and malicious’ and has caused great damage to his reputation besides causing damage to Indo-Sri Lanka relations.

 “I never spoke these words in the seminar in Singapore as has been mentioned. Besides me there were other dignitaries from India and surprisingly your report does not mention any of them,” he has written.

Furthermore, he has pointed out that during his participation in the seminar in Colombo on ‘India under Modi’ organized by the Bandaranaike Center for International Studies (BCIS ) and in the interviews he gave, he has very clearly suggested that the Tamil issue is an internal matter of Sri Lanka and should not be internationalized.