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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12488927" data-attributes="member: 92282">Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Wednesday withdrew her  AIADMK MP from an all-party delegation set to visit Sri Lanka April  16-21. The team led by BJP's Sushma Swaraj is to inspect the rehabilitation  of those displaced during the war against the Tamil Tigers that ended in  May 2009. Jayalalithaa said in a statement that her MP A. Williams Rabi Bernard  will stay away as the itenary does not include a meeting with the  affected people and taking up their issues with President Mahinda  Rajapaksa. She said the itenary "gives importance to meeting and dining" with  Sinhalese leaders and government officials and that the programme seemed  to have been designed by Sri Lankan officials to create a positive  image about them in India. "Further the delegation does not comprise of journalists, human rights activists and independent observers," she said. Jayalalithaa also came down on the Indian government for not acting  on the Tamil Nadu assembly resolution to take steps to impose economic  sanctions against Sri Lanka and for diluting the US resolution against  Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council. She said Colombo was continuing with "its anti-Tamil activities by  attacking Indian fishermen" as well as over the rehabilitation of Tamils  in the island nation. According to Jayalalithaa, the MPs' visit will turn out to be an  eyewash as it happened with an earlier team of parliamentary members  belonging to the Congress, DMK and VCK parties.IANS</blockquote>

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