Nedumarn should urge LTTE to negotiate - Jeyaraj

COLOMBO: The Government yesterday said the Tamil Nadu politician, Nedumaran, should compel the LTTE to come to negotiations with the Government, instead of trying to provoke Tamils.

At the weekly situation briefing yesterday, Highways Minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle said the prices of commodities have gone up in the North due to the LTTE activities.

“The LTTE is levying taxes. They are attacking the ships conveying food stuffs to Jaffna,” the Minister said the Tamil Nadu politician should talk LTTE into stopping these actions, which has led to the increase in the prices, if he was genuinely interested in the grievances of the Tamil people.

The Minister alleged that Nedumaran and his allay Vaiko are both bankrupt politicians looking for some publicity at the cost of Sri Lanka’s national security.