Ministry seeks steps to curb pro-LTTE activities in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry

Union minister of state for parliamentary affairs V Narayanasamy today sought immediate legal steps to curb activities of political groups that were supporting the banned LTTE here and in Tamil Nadu.

The law enforcing machinery should intervene and initiate steps immediately to curb activities of outfits and political parties supporting the LTTE, he told reporters here without naming any outfit.

All political parties should launch a joint fight against terrorism and terrorist outfits should never be allowed to gain roots anywhere in the country, he said.

Referring to the Sri Lankan Tamils issue, he said the Central government and Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi were sparing no efforts to ensure proper rehabilitation of displaced Tamils in the island.

Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa had assured to do
the needful for rehabilition of the Tamils when a delegation
of MPs met him in Delhi during his recent visit, he said.

Referring to the incident of blast on railway track near Villupuram today, he said the menace of such incidents were spreading to south and utmost care was necessary to stem the rot.

Narayanasamy wanted the Puducherry government to come down
heavily on illegal child care centres as they were indulging
in stealing and selling of children.

He said the Centre was keen about setting up software technology park in Puducherry.

He appealed to the Central authorities to select Sedarapet village in Puducherry to set up a Special economic zone exclusively for the software parks.

Narayanasamy also said Union finance minister Pranab
Mukherjee will visit Puducherry on July 3 to hand over bank
loans to the members of all women self help groups under self
employment projects. He would also release the compendium of
Human Development index relating to Puducherry.

Mukherjee would also address a meeting of the ruling Congress at the celebration of the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Congress, organised by PCC during his visit. 

He would also address the celebration of the birth centenary of former chief minister of Puducherry and veteran freedom fighter V.Venkatasubba Reddiar, father of chief minister V.Vaithilingam.

Narayanasamy said Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal would lay
the foundation stone for the National Institute of Technolgy
(NIT) at Karaikal on July 12. Fifty percent of the seats in the NIT would be earmarked for students of the union territory, he added.