Jaya to meet PM Modi today with list of issues

June 03, 2014 08:42

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa will on Tuesday meet Narendra Modi for the first time after he became the prime minister on May 26.

The Tamil Nadu CM will submit a list of issues concerning her state at Modi's office in South Block.

According to an official statement, the memorandum will include long-pending issues crucial to Tamil Nadu and on which the central government needs to act.

Jayalalithaa didn't attend Modi's May 26 inauguration after Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa was invited to the event.

Jayalalithaa is a bitter critic of Rajapaksa, whose regime is accused by critics of killing thousands of innocent Tamils during the final stages of the war that crushed the Tamil Tigers in 2009.

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