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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ganeshrox" data-source="post: 13335253" data-attributes="member: 378322"><img src="http://adaderana.lk/news_images/258587643jj3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />                Now, Jayalalithaa orders Sri Lankan soccer teams to be sent back     After expressing her strong displeasure over Sri Lankan defence  personnel undergoing training in her state, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J  Jayalalithaa has now ordered for sending back two Sri Lankan football  teams which were undergoing training in Chennai.   The directive from the Chief Minister came after one of the teams,  Royal College of Colombo, played a match against the Chennai Customs  team at a stadium in the city on Friday. Ms Jayalalithaa has also  ordered the suspension of a stadium official for allowing the soccer  team to play the “friendly” tie, alleging that he insulted Tamils.    “The (Nehru) Stadium Officer has no authority to allow matches  there and only the Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu is  authorised to do so. By using an authority that did not exist, the  official had demeaned the sentiments of Tamil people,” she said. The  Chief Minister has also ordered Chief Secretary Debendranath Sarangi to  initiate department-level proceedings against the official.   “I have also instructed that no competitions must be held for the  Sri Lankan team besides directing that they be sent back,” she said in a  statement. The other visiting team, comprising eight students from the  Hilborn International School, was scheduled to play in a tournament with  students from the Velammal International School in Chennai. The state  government has also ordered for the students to be sent back along with  their coach.     The Chief Minister has also slammed the Centre for allowing the Sri  Lankan players to undergo training and develop their skills in India.   The latest incident comes just over a week after Ms Jayalalithaa  asked Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to halt an ongoing training  programme for two Sri Lankan defence personnel at the Defence Services  Staff College in Wellington near Ooty. In a strongly-worded letter, she  had demanded for the immediate sending back of the two defence  personnel, alleging that the training “has been mischievously concealed  from my government, showing scant regard for the views of my government  as well as for the sentiments of the people of Tamil Nadu.”   Last month, the Chief Minister had opposed a similar training  programme for nine Sri Lankan Air Force personnel at the Tambaram Air  Force Station in Chennai. In view of her stiff opposition and protests  from other parties in the state including ally DMK, the Centre had been  forced to move them to the Yelahanka Air Force Station in Bengaluru in  order to enable them to complete their training.    Ms Jayalalithaa had dubbed the move as “not proper”, adding that  “instead of sending these personnel back to Sri Lanka, the Government of  India exhibited excessive enthusiasm and concern for these personnel”.  Ms Jayalalithaa had then described it as “anti- Tamil” and said “Tamils  want action against Sri Lanka for war crimes and they will not accept  this” and that “Tamils even suspect whether the Centre is acting against  them”. – NDTV/PTI</blockquote>

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