Boase welcomes President's Delhi visit

The Tami Nadu Coastal Mechanised Boat Fishermen's Welfare Association Secretary N.J. Boase welcomed Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa's visit to New Delhi to attend Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony as Prime Minister of India tomorrow.

In a statement issued in Ramewaram, Tamil Nadu, Boase said that the problems of Tamil-speaking people in Sri Lanka including the fishermen's issues could solved diplomatically if President Mahinda Rajapkasa visits New Delhi to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Indian Prime Minister designate Narendra Modi.

Inspite of the protest of several political parties and various organisations in Tamil Nadu against the Sri Lankan President's visit to New Delhi, Bose and his fishermen's association not only welcomed but also advised all these parties to support it so that the issues related to welfare of minority Tamils in Sri Lanka and the fishermen's issues too could be solved.

Advisor to the Indo-Lanka Fishermen's Welfare Forum and member of the Advisory Board of the Ministry of Fisheries Aquatic Resources Development, S. P. Anthonymuthu said, "Bose told me on the phone about the action taken by the Association to support President Rajapaksa's visit to New Delhi."