{"id":41039,"date":"2012-05-11T07:42:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T07:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=41039"},"modified":"2012-05-11T07:42:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T07:42:42","slug":"lankan-tamils-issue-high-on-agenda-at-tn-bjp-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lankan-tamils-issue-high-on-agenda-at-tn-bjp-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Lankan Tamils\u2019 Issue High On Agenda At TN BJP Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Deccan Herald &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As the fifth state conference of the BJP got off with an impressive start at a sprawling venue in the Temple city of Madurai on Thursday, its spotlight fixed on the plight of Sri Lankan Tamils, indicating the party\u2019s plan to woo the Tamil voters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41041\" style=\"width: 347px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lankan-tamils-issue-high-on-agenda-at-tn-bjp-meet\/nitin-gadkari1_1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41041\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41041\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41041\" title=\"nitin-gadkari1_1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/nitin-gadkari1_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/nitin-gadkari1_1.jpg 337w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/nitin-gadkari1_1-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BJP National President Nitin Gadkari<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u2018Thamarai Sangamam\u2019 (the grand lotus congregation) seemed like part of the BJP\u2019s nationwide effort to bring back NDA to power in Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>As Tamil Nadu is seen as a state which will play a key role in it\u2019s plans, the BJP is leaving no stone unturned to woo the Tamil population. Opposition leader in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj led a delegation to Sri Lanka last month to study the plight of the Tamils.<br \/>\nThe two-day conference kept up the tempo by focusing on the problems of ethnic Tamils\u2019 in Srilanka. BJP National President Nitin Gadkari took a swipe at the UPA for \u201cdoing nothing\u201d to stop the killings of innocent Tamils. He blamed the Congress for the rising cases of farmers\u2019 suicides in Maharashtra, the increasing unemployment and the economic slowdown.<\/p>\n<p>The meet passed a resolution demanding that the internally displaced Tamils in Sri Lanka be resettled in their original places at the earliest. It added that the Centre should expedite the construction of 50,000 houses promised to the Sri Lankan Tamils.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders said the frequent attacks on Tamil Nadu fishermen by the Sri Lankan security forces must end\u00a0 immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":41041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-from-foreign-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lankan Tamils\u2019 Issue High On Agenda At TN BJP Meet - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lankan-tamils-issue-high-on-agenda-at-tn-bjp-meet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lankan Tamils\u2019 Issue High On Agenda At TN BJP Meet - 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