Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Saturday slammed the Central government for imparting training to Lankan defence personnel at Wellington, showing scant regard for the views of her government as well as the sentiments of the people of Tamil Nadu.
She asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to instruct the Defence Ministry to halt the training being given to Lankan defence personnel and arrange to send them back to Sri Lanka immediately.
Jayalalithaa, in her letter to the PM, took exception to the permission given to two defence personnel of the Sri Lanka — Major Dissanayaka Mohottalalage Vengra of the Lankan Army and Captain Hewawasam Kandaudage, of the Lankan Navy — to undergo 11 months training at Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, from May 19 onwards.
“It is very clear that this fact of ongoing training since May 2012 has been mischievously concealed from my government, showing scant regard for the views of my government as well as for the sentiments of the people of Tamil Nadu,” she said, and described it as the Centre’s reprehensible act.
In this connection, Jayalalithaa recalled that following her vehement opposition in July, nine Lankan Air Force personnel who were undergoing technical training at the Air Force Station, Tambaram, were relocated to the Yelahanka Air Force Station, Bangalore.
She had insisted that they should not be trained anywhere in India, saying the desire of Tamil people was to see those charged with war crimes being punished.
“This action itself was not proper because instead of sending these personnel back to Sri Lanka, the Centre exhibited excessive enthusiasm and concern for these personnel by relocating them to Yelahanka, to enable them to complete their training,” Jayalalithaa observed.
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