Will summon Sri Lankan High Commissioner: Sushma Swaraj

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said the government will summon the Sri Lankan High Commissioner over a derogatory article mentioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa. She said in Rajya Sabha that, the government has strongly condemned the development. She also said that, government will certainly summon the High Commissioner of Sri Lanka and convey this to him.

This came after the upper house saw disruptions over the issue, losing its Question Hour. The upper house saw two adjournments during the Question Hour as AIADMK members trooped near the Chairman’s podium raising the issue.

An objectionable article about Jayalalithaa and Modi was published on the Sri Lanka’s Defence Ministry website titled "How valuable are love letters written by Jayalalithaa to Narendra Modi?". Soon after seeing this, Tamil Nadu people (except so called ‘nationalist’ Subramaniyan Swamy) and all the political parties condemned Sri Lanka and asked the Centre to act firmly against Lanka in this issue. Sri Lanka also offered an “unqualified apology” for the article.