CPI today said resettlement of the Internally Displaced Tamils in Sri Lanka and evolving a political solution granting equal rights to Tamils was the need of the hour and India should not stop with 'pumping funds' to Lanka but also focus on the twin issues.
CPI national secretary D Raja told reporters here that his party would raise the Sri Lankan Tamils issue in the coming
Parliament session, focusing on immediate resettling of Tamils lodged in camps as well as a political solution for them.
He said the US, UN and the European Union (EU) had expressed concern about alleged human rights violations in Sri Lanka and wanted India to take note of this and "give full attention."
India had never highlighted the ''human rights violations or other problems'' on an international platform.CPI will raise these issues in the winter session of Parliament, starting on November 19, Raja said.
On the issue of Katchatheevu, an islet ceded to Sri Lanka in 1974 by India, he alleged that New Delhi was only toeing Sri Lanka's line of saying that Indian fishermen had all the rights to rest there, dry their nets and visit the church there, but did not have any fishing rights.
"If there are no fishing rights why go there to rest", he said.
Saying that the Centre was "determined" to divest its stakes in public sector undertakings and thus paving way to privatisation, Raja said it would be detrimental to national economy. His party would continue to oppose it.
On the Mullaperiyar dam issue,he said it should not be sensationalised as it was an emotional one involving the people of two states.Centre should create conducive atmosphere for talks between Tamil Nadu and Kerala,he said.
On Congress making headway in the Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Arunachal Pradesh, Raja said people had voted for secular forces.
About the controversy regarding the Ninth World Tamil conference, boycotted by AIADMK, he said CPI did not endorse its former ally's stand and added his party would participate in the conference to be held at Coimbatore in June next.
Commenting on Wednesday's train mishap at Mathura which killed 22 persons, he said the "regrettable" incident could have been avoided.''Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee is not devoting her time to Railway administration and she does not stay in Delhi for long," he said.
He also charged some UPA Ministers with functioning "arbitrarily" and wanted prime minister Manmohan Singh to "pull them up."
