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Baalu questioned Mrs Charles – Asked not to make Indian MPs tour to IDP camp as a guided tour |
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The leader of the Tamil Nadu MPs’ delegation to Sri Lanka, T R Baalu, on Sunday questioned the sinhala origin Sri Lankan Tamil lady official Mrs B S M Charles, Government Agent (Collector) of Vavuniya district in north Sri Lanka of her bona fides and asked her not to interfere in the programme of the Indian delegation who were visiting Tamil war refugee camps of their choice. Father of Mrs B S M Charles is a former Sri Lankan police Officer and she is handpicked by Mahinda Rajapaksa government to managed Tamil IDP Camps and related guided tours.
Mrs B S M Charles said to local reporters that all she had done was to make arrangements as per the wishes of the Sri Lankan government . The Indian MPs wanted to go to the Kadirgamar camp and to a farm managed by the refugees. It was when this was being arranged, that Baalu intervened and asked unfettered accecc to all IDPs.
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