AIADMK on Tuesday strongly opposed any move to allow the LTTE political advisor and chief negotiator Anton Balasingam to stay in Chennai and hold talks with negotiators from Norway. In a statement in Chennai, AIADMK supremo and former chief minister J Jayalalithaa said 'I am alarmed at the very prospect of the LTTE entering Tamil Nadu again and I am shocked that a situation has arisen wherein such a move could even be contemplated by the Government of India'. Referring to the LTTE's reported plea to the Centre to allow Balasingam and his wife to stay in Chennai before and during the talks, Jayalithaa said she was firmly opposed to any move to allow the LTTE 'to enter Tamil Nadu again in any manner and under any pretext'. Claiming that during her chief ministership between 1991 and 1996 she was mainly responsible for driving the LTTE out of the state and getting the Centre to ban the organisation, Jayalalithaa said 'it is my duty to once again voice my stout resistance and firm opposition to any move to allow the LTTE enter Tamil Nadu.
Bureau Report