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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12340296" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS9qYXR4A-yVCSwMrqNEpdOyT8UCwzTLYoBeTHgSBBWspktuaUanQ" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Dismissing as "non-committal" and "futile" Prime Minister Manmohan  Singh's statement on India's stand on the US-backed resolution against  Sri Lanka at UNHRC, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today said  it made no reference to alleged human rights violations by Colombo."He  didn't make any reference to human rights violations. He has not said  Sri Lanka will be condemned for these. This is a non-committal and  futile reply," she said reacting to Singh's statement in the Lok Sabha  today.She said the PM had only said while he did not have the  final draft of the resolution, "India was inclined to vote for it and  that its objective was to ensure equality, self-respect and dignity for  the future of the Tamils."Taking a dig at her arch rival DMK  chief M Karunanidhi for announcing a fast and party high-level committee  meeting on the Sri Lankan issue, which he later withdrew citing Singh's  reply, she said he had enacted a drama.With parties in Tamil  Nadu including UPA's key ally DMK mounting pressure to support the US  resolution in United Nations Human Rights Council against Lanka for its  alleged war crimes, the Prime Minister told the Lok Sabha that India was  "inclined to" vote in favour of the resolution which meets "our  objectives" with regard to the future of ethnic Tamils.Jayalalithaa said there was no response from the Prime Minister on her two letters to him on the issue.His failure to make any mention about violation of human rights by Sri Lanka was "regrettable", she said.Attacking  Karunanidhi, she said he had staged a similar drama in 2009 at the  height of the conflict between Sri Lankan armed forces and the LTTE by  staging a fast only to call it off claiming that Home Minister P  Chidambaram had conveyed to him that a ceasefire had been declared.The  situation is similar now with the DMK chief having called off the  proposed fast based on the Prime Minister's statement, she, said adding  Karunanidhi would do well not to "re-enact such dramas" in the interest  of Tamils.PTI</blockquote>

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