BJP asks Delhi to mediate between Lanka and LTTE
Asking the Centre to play a 'major role' to bring both the Sri Lankan Government and the LTTE to negotiating table, the BJP today said the recent meeting between Priyanka Vadhra and Nalini, a convict in the Rajiv Gandhi Assassination case, was done with a 'motif'.
"The Indian Government should play a major role to bring both the LTTE and the Sri Lankan Government to negotiating table," BJP president Rajnath Singh told reporters here.
Reacting to Priyanka's highly publicised visit to the Vellore Central Prison on March 19 to meet Nalini, he said "Her visit to see Nalini was a diplomatic tactics used by the Congress with a motif." He, however, did not elaborate.
Singh also termed as a "personal opinion" the former national security advisor Brajesh Mishra's statement that he preferred India to sign the nuclear deal with the US. The BJP had not changed its stand of opposing the agreement.
Stating that BJP favoured implementation of the Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project without affecting the Ram Sethu (Adam's Bridge) in the Palk Straits, he appealed to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunandihi to re-align the project so as to preserve it.
Singh also demanded a white paper on inflation and accused the UPA Government of total failure to curb the rising inflation.
He said BJP rejected Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram's stand that inflation was a global phenomenon as the rate of inflation in the US was three per cent and four per cent in other developing countries.
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