CHENNAI: Hours after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced that India is inclined to back the resolution against Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council, DMK chief M Karunanidhi called off his party’s proposed one-day hunger strike on March 22. Karunanidhi said he was glad that the Centre took this decision and was ‘satisfied’ with Manmohan Singh’s response. “It is a victory for those who struggled and are still struggling for this cause,” he claimed. “Under these circumstances, the stir and high-level meeting called by the party top-brass have become needless,” he added.Karunanidhi had claimed that DMK ministers will denounce their Union Cabinet berths if India decides to vote against the US sponsored resolution at UNHRC. The DMK has 18 members in the Lok Sabha.The DMK patriarch also read out to reporters a draft copy of the resolution supposed to be passed at the meeting. Meanwhile, Congress president Sonia Gandhi informed Karunanidhi in a letter dated March 15 that the Centre was engaged with all parties to find a “just solution.”
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