Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentary group leader R. Sampanthan, told a visiting delegation of top Indian officials that "Tamils believed all these years that they were the natural allies of
"We feel very sad about this," he said.
"We thought both Tamils and Indians were together but we believe
"In 1987, the Indo-Sri Lanka accord merged the North and the East but today it has been de-merged. And it guaranteed devolution of powers to the Tamils. But even after it was de-merged,
After listening to Sampanthan the Indian delegation invited him and his party members to visit
National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan, Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon and Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Alok Prasad and two other officials were present during the discussions.