‘Jawaharlal Nehru saw Katchatheevu Island as a nuisance’: S Jaishankar as Centre ups the ante

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Katchatheevu Island issue: The political row over the Katchatheevu issue intensified on Monday as external affairs minister S Jaishankar held a press conference and claimed that the decades-old territorial and fishing rights dispute around the island did not surface suddenly and that it has often been debated in Parliament..

He also claimed that prime ministers from the Congress displayed indifference about Katchatheevu Island and gave away Indian fishermen's rights despite legal views to the contrary.I)..

S Jaishankar's statement comes shortly after Prime Minister Narendra Modi targeted the DMK over the Katchatheevu Island issue, alleging the ruling party of Tamil Nadu did nothing to safeguard the state's interests. ..

At the press conference, Jaishankar said prime ministers such as Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi dubbed Katchatheevu, given to Sri Lanka in 1974 as part of a maritime boundary agreement, as a "little island" and little rock, asserting that the issue has not cropped up abruptly but was always a live matter..

. Earlier on Monday, citing a news report which claimed that M Karunanidhi had given his concurrence to the agreement despite his party the DMK's public posturing against the deal, Modi took to X and wrote, New details emerging on the issue of India handing over the Katchatheevu island to Sri Lank have unmasked the DMK's double standards totally..

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