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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin connected Tuesday (December 23, 2025) wrote to Union External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, urging him to utilise due diplomatic channels to convene a Joint Working Group gathering and clasp fishermen-level talks to get astatine a imperishable solution to the issues faced by Tamil Nadu’s fishermen.
In his letter, Mr. Stalin drew Mr. Jaishankar’s attraction to the apprehension of 12 fishermen from Rameswaram and the seizure of their mechanised vessel by the Sri Lankan Navy connected Tuesday. “The continued apprehension of our fishermen and the seizure of their boats by the Sri Lankan Navy person severely impacted their livelihoods and caused immense hardship and distress among the coastal sportfishing communities of Tamil Nadu,” Mr. Stalin said.
In presumption of the above, Mr. Stalin urged the Centre to instrumentality up the substance urgently done due diplomatic channels and convene the Joint Working Group gathering and clasp fishermen-level talks astatine the earliest to get astatine a imperishable and mutually acceptable solution.
He besides pointed retired that a full of 248 sportfishing boats and 62 fishermen from Tamil Nadu, including 18 fishermen apprehended successful 2024, were presently nether Sri Lankan custody. He urged the Centre to instrumentality indispensable steps to forestall further arrests by the Sri Lankan Navy and to unafraid the aboriginal merchandise of each detained fishermen and their sportfishing boats.
