Abstract: India and Sri Lanka are the countries charectrised by great socio-economic, political and cultural similarities. Both the countries also share identical views on most of the international problems and issues. They had trade relations during the chola period. Rajaraja Chola defeated the king of Ceylon and subdued the country for sometimes. During the British rule many people from India, especially from Tamil Nadu went and settled there in Ceylon and worked in tea plantations. The people of Indian origin in Ceylon irritated the Sinhalese who waited for an opportunity to throw them away. This problem existed since 1949 when Sri Lanka got independence. The ethnic discrimination was followed by a lot of refugees swarming into the Indian sub-continent. The two governments have held protracted negotiations to find a solution of this problem but without much success. The presence of large number of Tamilian refugees in India was felt by the native people who began to raise their voice against the central government to intervene. The political parties in Tamil Nadu played a vital role in screwing the congress party in Tamil Nadu to settle the issue. The legislators belonging the Communist Party, Dravida Munnerra Kazhagam ,Anna Dravida Munerra Kazhagam raised the issue of the refugees during the question hour to get the attention of the government. This paper is based on the primary sources like the Debates of the Madras Legislative Assembly and Tamilnadu Legislative Asssembly. This paper deals with the questions raised by the legislators and the replies given by the ruling party. Later the issue of the refugees were utilized by the politicians for vote bank.
Keywords: Refugees, Question Hour, Communists, DMK, ADMK, Evasive Reply, Under Consideration, Tamilians, Geo-Politics, Election Manifesto.
Title: A CRY FOR CEYLON REFUGEES WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO QUESTION HOUR
Author: Dr. A. Theeba
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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