BJP rules out country specific resolution, India is not Pak

March 20, 2013 12:25

The BJP today said that passing a country specific resolution on Sri Lanka is not a desirable action, saying that unlike Pakistan, India was a functional democracy.

We are not like the Pakistan Parliament. India is a functional democracy. We cannot have resolutions in parliament specific to a country," BJP spokesman Rajiv Pratap Rudy.

"And, at the same time, we will know what is in the mind of this government, and what does it want in the resolution, and whether such a resolution is required at all. As far as the DMK is concerned, the DMK action has just been born out of a desire to look for an excuse to quit the UPA Government, and was not fuelled by any real concern for Sri Lankan Tamils," he added.

The DMK had pulled out of the UPA Government over the issue of alleged human rights violations of Sri Lankan Tamils.

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