Chennai, April 5 -- he Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly unanimously passed a resolution on Wednesday asking the Centre to retrieve the Katchatheev islet from Sri Lanka. According to seasoned diplomats, it is nothing other than an eye wash.
"It is an internationally accepted agreement signed between two sovereign countries, India and Sri Lanka in 1974 and 1976. What were the Tamil Nadu politicians doing all these decades?" asks TP Srinivasan, former Indian Ambassador.
Late J Jayalalithaa, former chief minister and AIADMK supremo, staged a one-woman war for retrieval of Katchatheev from Sri Lanka. She even filed a petition in Supreme Court in 2008 asking for the same. Mukul Rohatgi, the Attorney General of India during 2014-2017 was asked by...