Chennai, April 05: Reaffirming India’s support for the Sri Lankan Tamils, Congress president and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi today said New Delhi would continue to press Colombo for constitutional amendments to ensure equal rights and status to ethnic minorities in the island nation.
“In our neighbourhood, there is no issue closer to our heart than the Sri Lankan Tamils’ issue. There was significant progress last year and India had committed and provided large sums of money for their rehabilitation,” Sonia said here at a joint election rally with DMK President and Chief Minister M Karunanidhi.
In her first campaign meeting for the April 13 Assembly polls, Sonia Gandhi said India will continue to do whatever it could for rehabilitation of Tamils displaced in the war against LTTE.
–Agencies