No IPL in Tamil Nadu if Sri Lankans participate: Jayalalithaa
Tuesday March 26, 2013 06:16:24 PM,
IANS
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Chennai: Tamil Nadu
will permit IPL matches only if the organisers promise that no Sri
Lankan players, umpires, officials or support staff will
participate, Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa told Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh Tuesday.
Jayalalithaa said in a letter to the prime minister: "In view of
the popular antipathy and anger in Tamil Nadu against the actions
of the government of Sri Lanka, the government of Tamil Nadu is of
the view that IPL matches involving Sri Lankan players, umpires
and other officials should not be played in Tamil Nadu."
Jayalalithaa said the Board of Cricket Control of India (BCCI) may
be advised by the central government to prevail upon Indian
Premier League organisers to not allow any Sri Lankans to take
part in the tournament in Tamil Nadu.
"The government of Tamil Nadu will permit IPL matches to be held
in Tamil Nadu, only if the organisers provide an undertaking that
no Sri Lankan players, umpires, officials or support staff would
participate in these matches," Jayalalithaa said.
Referring to the human rights violations by the Sri Lankan
government against the Tamils and the continued attacks on Indian
fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy, she said: "All political parties
in Tamil Nadu have repeatedly voiced their grave concern regarding
these issues. The atmosphere is, therefore, already surcharged
with a groundswell of popular public opinion against the Sri
Lankan government."
She said the state government apprehended that the participation
of Sri Lankans in the IPL tournament, with many games to be played
in Chennai, would aggravate an already surcharged atmosphere and
further offend the sentiments of the people.
Citing human rights abuses by Colombo, Jayalalithaa had said last
month that Tamil Nadu would not host the 20th Asian Athletics
Championship in July in which Sri Lanka will take part.
"The state will not conduct the championship and it cannot be held
in Tamil Nadu. The general secretary of the Asian Athletics
Association will be asked by the state to hold the event somewhere
else," she said.
Jayalalithaa said the state government had written to the
Singapore-based Asian Athletics Association urging that the
participation of athletes from Sri Lanka would hurt the sentiments
of Tamils.
Jayalalithaa has also opposed the training of Sri Lankan military
personnel in India and sent back a Sri Lankan football team that
had come to Tamil Nadu to play friendly matches.
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