The LTTE is a terrorist group. I am not particularly fond of LTTE myself. It killed my father, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi said at a press conference in Puducherry.

A LTTE woman suicide bomber assassinated former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi at an election rally near Chennai in May 1991. India outlawed the LTTE the next year.

India was doing its best to protect Tamil civilians caught in the conflict in Nothern Sri Lanka. 'We are trying to help the situation there,' he said.