Chennai: DMK president M. Karunanidhi on Sunday made an appeal to Andhra Pradesh CM and his friend Mr Naidu to come forward to help innocent Tamils on humanitarian grounds.
Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa had written to her AP counterpart Chandrababu Naidu seeking his intervention in the release of 32 suspected woodcutters from the state who were arrested by that state’s police on Friday.
In a statement here, Mr Karunanidhi said that family members of 32 Tamils were in deep shock and grief despite TN chief minister writing to her counterpart in Andhra Pradesh.
“Andhra Pradesh chief minister and my friend Chandrababu Naidu, who wants to have a good relationship between Andhra and Tamil people, should directly interfere and take steps to release the 32 Tamils and send them back to the respective native places. I also want to make a friendly appeal to Andhra Pradesh police to shun away from targeting Tamils in future too. I hope chief minister Chandrababu Naidu will come forward to help innocent Tamils on humanitarian grounds,” he said.
DMK chief also noted that his party legislator E.V. Velu tried to move a call attention motion in the Assembly on Friday in vain. “It was not taken up for the discussion stating that chief minister has to reply for it,” he said.
