Key Points
New Delhi: While transferring of Katchatheevu Island to Sri Lanka with the tacit connivance of the then Tamil Nadu chief minister of DMK party in 1974 has now become a matter of political slanging match between BJP and Opposition, the fundamental question is was the transfer of this one-mile long island done on basis of personal equation between leaders or was it approved by Indira Gandhi cabinet.d...
The India-Bangladesh Land Boundary Agreement was signed in 1974 but entered into force on June 6, 2015, after the Union Cabinet under Narendra Modi Cabinet cleared the agreement and the Parliament cleared the 100th Constitutional Amendment Bill on May 7, 2015..
The 1974 land boundary agreement signed between then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Mujib-ur-Rehman was ratified 41 years later with a unanimous vote in both houses of Parliament..
Although the matter of the transfer of Katchatheevu Island by then PM Indira Gandhi to then Sri Lankan Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike in 1974 and the surrendering of Indian fishing rights in 1976 is now before the Apex Court, there is no evidence yet that the transfer was approved by the Union Cabinet..
While it is for the Apex Court to decide on the processes followed in transfer of Kachchathivu Islands to Sri Lanka, can the transfer of sovereign land be done on the basis of personal equations of leaders without Constitutional Amendment is the big point to ponder...
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