Pandiyan opposes participation of BJP ICAPP

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Press Trust of India Erode
Last Updated : Sep 19 2014 | 3:15 PM IST
CPI today opposed the participation of two BJP leaders in the International Conference on Asian Political Parties in Sri Lanka.
The participation by two BJP leaders in the ICAPP will hurt the the Tamils, "as the Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa is totally responsible" for the human rights violations by the Army against civilian Tamils in the civil war against the rebel LTTE", party state secretary D Pandiyan said while speaking at the three day state Agricultural Labourers Sangam, an unit of the CPI here.
The conference began yesterday at Colombo.
He appreciated the Pasumai Veedu scheme in Tamil Nadu, and said it should be for the benefit of the poor.
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First Published: Sep 19 2014 | 3:15 PM IST

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