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The ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu is opposed to the Centre extending any help to the LTTE for conducting peace talks with the Sri Lankan government, party supremo and former chief minister Jayalalithaa has said.
"We are against such talks being held either in Chennai or any other part of south India," she said in a statement issued in Chennai on Tuesday.
During her tenure as chief minister between 1991 and 1996, she was responsible for 'driving the LTTE out of the state' and persuading the Centre to ban the organization.
"The organisation has also been banned in many other countries, including the United States, and a ban has been recently imposed on its fund-raising activities by Canada and Australia," she said.
Jayalalithaa pointed out that LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran and his intelligence chief Pottu Amman were named as the main accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
"The presence of LTTE leaders in Tamil Nadu at this juncture will only hamper the probe into the assassination," she added.
"It is shocking that the Centre could even contemplate letting the LTTE set up a base in Tamil," Jayalalithaa said.
She pointed out that the LTTE's entry into the state could give a boost to the activities of the banned pro-LTTE militant outfits - Tamil Nadu Liberation Army (TNLA) and the Tamil Nationalist Retrieval Force (TNRT), and even complicate the security scenario in the state.
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