Rameswaram| Tiruchy: The serial blasts that rocked churches and hotels at three places including Colombo and Batticaloa on Easter Sunday killing over 250 people and injuring over 500 others, has sent shock waves across the pilgrim-island of Rameswaram across the Palk Straits.
The bomb blasts are of serious concern, coming ten years after the long years of civil strife ended in Sri Lanka, said Mr. C R Senthilvel, CPI(M)’s district committee member. Representatives of political parties here including the CPI(M), members of the general public and Mr. Ramamurthy, district president of ‘Hindu Munnani’, were all unanimous in condemning the unprecedented serial blasts in Sri Lanka.
Meanwhile, the judicial remand of eight Rameswaram fishermen taken into custody by the Sri Lankan Navy three months back, has been extended to May 6 by a Sri Lankan court on Monday.
SUSHMA SHOULD GO TO LANKA, URGES TNCC CHIEF
The Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president, K S Azhagiri in a statement on Monday, expressing deep shock and outrage on the serial blasts in Sri Lanka in which a large number of foreign tourists including six Indians were killed, said the specter of terrorism and ‘human bombs’ has again begun to rear their heads in the Island-Republic, when people in Sri Lanka were attempting to come back to normal and peaceful life in the past ten years.
Mr. Azhagiri said the blasts have caused deep concern among the Tamils and the minorities in particular. While India should closely monitor the developments in Sri Lanka, that would not be sufficient, he said. To get a full picture of the ground situation in Sri Lanka and to directly know the extent of fear and insecurity that has gripped the Island Tamils and Minorities there, in a bid to find ways to dispel their anxieties, the Indian External Affairs Minister, Ms Sushma Swaraj should immediately visit Sri Lanka, Mr. Azhagiri urged on the TNCC’s behalf.
Meanwhile, security along the coastal areas of all 13 coastal districts of Tamil Nadu including Nagapattinam, Pudukkottai, Thanjavur, Tiruvarur, Ramanathapuram, and Thoothukudi districts have been beefed up further following Sunday’s serial blasts in Sri Lanka. Coastal area patrolling and sea patrolling have been intensified, sources told DC from Nagapattinam. The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has also strengthened its security measures at the international airport at Tiruchy, sources added.
IUML president Kader Mohideen condemns serial blasts in Sri Lanka
The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) national president Prof. K.M Kader Mohideen has strongly condemned Sunday’s serial blasts that took place in Sri Lanka which claimed more than 200 lives and caused injuries to several hundred others.
In a release at Tiruchy on Monday, he said that it was shocking and disheartening to note that extremism has once again attacked the Island nation.
He likened Sunday blasts to targeting humanity as a whole (Manitha Inam) and wanted the Sri Lankan Government to take suitable action against the culprits, without any hesitation and to uproot the extremists from the Island nation.
Prof Mohideen said he prayed to God Almighty to give enough strength to the affected families’ to bear their irreparable loss.
