(Merely sitting at a hotel in Jaffna and writing a letter to Prime Minister [Modi] will not work,” he says. A. Varatharaja Perumal, former Chief Minister, North-East Province, Sri Lanka, during an interaction with The Hindu in Coimbatore on Monday. | Photo Credit: S. Siva Saravanan)
Leaders of Sri Lankan Tamil parties need to step up their engagement with India for resolving the Tamil issue, according to A. Varatharaja Perumal, former Chief Minister of the once-unified North-Eastern Province of Sri Lanka.