Sept 13 (Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Thursday said Sri Lankan tourists and pilgrims would face no problem in the State and sought to explain that she had prevented sportspersons from that country playing or training in Tamil Nadu only to express the State’s anguish and protest over the denial of rights due to Tamils in the island nation.
Speaking at a function got up in Srirangam, her constituency, where she launched or laid the foundation stone for a number of projects, the Chief Minister said she had taken measures such as getting a resolution passed in the State Assembly seeking economic sanctions against Sri Lanka to pressure that government into granting Tamils equal rights.
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