TN Govt Wasn’t Aware of Visit of Prabhakaran’s Mother: Karunanidhi

Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi has said that the state government has no role in deportation of slain LTTE leader V Prabhakaran’s mother Parvathi and it will write to the central government on permission to medical treatment to her if she insisted, said media reports.

“There was no communication to the state government from her or those who had arranged her Indian trip from Malaysia. All the communication was between her and the Centre,” Karunanidhi was quoted as saying in the state assembly while answering a special call attention motion.

The chief minister said that neither he nor the state government had any information about her visit, said reports.

Quoting reports about her undergoing treatment in Malaysia, Karunandih said, “If she insists on coming to Tamil Nadu for treatment, we are ready to consider her case and write accordingly to the Centre.”

He said that he would inform the House of Centre’s reply in the case, reports said.

Karunanidhi also said that in 2003, the AIADMK government had written to the Centre demanding that Parvathi and her husband, who had left Tiruchrappli in the state for Sri Lanka following truce in the island nation, be banned from re-entering into the country, said reports.

Earlier opposition parties barring AIADMK, whose members were not present during the motion, spoke in one voice and criticised the deportation of Parvathi by Indian authorities to Maylaysia and demanded that she be allowed medical treatment in the country on humanitarian ground, reports said.

(Based on internet reports)