: Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and national award winning lyricist Vairamuthu on Tuesday batted for providing citizenship to Sri Lankan Tamil refugees living in the country for more than three decades.
While Ravi Shankar wanted the Centre to consider giving citizenship to over a lakh Tamil refugees, Vairamuthu said the latter should be seen as "human beings who have lost their land."
In a tweet, Ravi Shankar said: "I request the Government of India to consider giving citizenship to more than one lakh Tamil Sri Lankans who are living in this country as refugees for the last 35 years. #CABBill."
In a tweet, Vairamuthu said the Lankan refugees should not be seen as "citizens of a neighbouring country."
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