The MDMK leader condemned the killings and additionally slammed the Central and state governments for not taking effective steps to prevent the deaths.
D. Pandian, State Secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI), inaugurated the protest, that had a robust strength of MDMK activists.
Pandian said that his party was assured of throwing the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam throughout the upcoming elections within the state.
"We won't solely face the approaching assembly elections with full confidence, however {will additionally|also will|will} kind a next government within the state and afterward we are going to offer a secure and clean government which might defend the individuals at giant and it'll also take efforts to free Katchatheevu (an island ceded to Sri Lanka by India in 1974)," Pandian said.
A fisherman was killed on January twenty two once the Sri Lankan Navy fired at him, once his trawler allegedly entered their territorial waters.
On January twelve, another Indian fishing boat was shot at by the Sri Lankan Navy. One Tamil fisherman was killed and 2 others were critically injured within the incident.
New Delhi condemned the killings and asked Colombo to require up the matter, however Sri Lanka has refuted the allegations.imilar incidents were reported last year when fishermen complained that the Sri Lankan Navy was attacking them embarrassed after they accidentally sailed within Sri Lankan territorial waters.
The charges have resulted in an uproar by most the political parties in Tamil Nadu. (ANI)
