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India's Janatha Party leader calls for Sri Lanka to merge with India to resolve ethnic crisis
[03 May 2000]

Subramaniam Swamy, India's Janatha Party leader has suggested that Sri Lanka should pass a resolution in parliament to merge with India in a confederation as a way out of the ethnic crisis, sources confirmed.  

Reacting to the Sri Lankan Buddhist clergy's view that the Indian Army should be brought back to Sri Lanka, Swamy said, " If Sri Lanka urges India to dispatch the IPKF, I demand that India, as a pre-condition, ask Sri Lanka to agree to at least a confederation with India with free borders. The Buddhist clergy should recognise that the Island State has become non-viable because of its untenable adherence to the concept of a unitary state".   

He said Sri Lanka, connected to India by a common history, scriptures, religion and mythology, could easily blend with the Indian composite culture.


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