Key Points
Prime Minister Narendra Modi referred to a media report on Sunday, highlighting newly emerged information suggesting that the Congress party "callously" surrendered the Katchatheevu island to Sri Lanka..
This has angered every Indian and reaffirmed in people's minds- we can't ever trust Congress," PM Modi said on X, sharing the report...
The report is based on a RTI reply Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai received on the decision of the then Indira Gandhi government in 1974 to hand over the territory in Palk Strait to the neighbouring country...
The BJP is hopeful that the issue will come handy to its efforts to gain political traction in the Dravidian territory as it gears up for the Lok Sabha polls, more so as it involves the neighbouring Sri Lanka whose treatment of its Tamilian citizens has long been a charged political issue in the state...
They only want to divide or break our nation," Amit Shah said.. BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi claimed that the decision of the then Congress government at the Centre has led to the capture and imprisonment of Tamil Nadu fishermen by Lankans as they at times wander to the island, which is only 25 km off their state's coast, and are arrested...
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