Stressing that Sri Lanka’s ethnic Tamil issue “ cannot be imported” , President Rajapaksa told the visiting Indian Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, Ravi Shankar Prasad, that all political parties must join hands to find an ‘all-inclusive’ settlement to the ethnic issue.
Despite the Tamil National Alliance’s current role as the main representative of the North-East, Rajapaksa highlighted that the solution would not be a “Rajapaksa-Sampanthan agreement.”
The six member BJP team, under the invite of Rajapaksa, is touring Sri Lanka and the North-East.