Sri Lanka’s Tamil parties seek sustained Indian push to realise spirit of Indo-Lanka Accord

COLOMBO

Sri Lanka’s Tamil parties person sought sustained Indian engagement to guarantee the implementation of the Indo-Lanka Accord of 1987, signed during the aboriginal years of the civilian warfare to code the aspirations of Tamils for adjacent rights and greater governmental power.

A delegation of leaders representing Tamils from the island’s northbound and eastbound connected Sunday (April 19, 2026) conveyed this to Vice-President C.P. Radhakrishnan, who is connected a two-day authoritative sojourn to Sri Lanka. Pointing to the “state-to-state treaty”, signed by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and President J.R. Jayewardene successful July 1987, salient Tamil enactment Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK) pointed retired that the existent tone of the Accord is yet to beryllium realised. “We told him that the Accord has ne'er been afloat realised, not adjacent done the 13th Amendment, which is besides yet to beryllium afloat implemented. Regardless of whoever comes into authorities present [in Sri Lanka] oregon determination [India], the statement indispensable beryllium fulfilled, and that is to person an statement based connected a national model, with irrevocable powerfulness sharing,” ITAK General Secretary and erstwhile Jaffna MP M.A. Sumanthiran told The Hindu, pursuing the meeting.