India denies entry to Sri Lankan Tamil MP

Colombo: Indian authorities have denied permission for Sri Lanka Tamil national Alliance parliamentarian and presidential candidate M.K. Sivajilingam to enter the country.
According to Indian media reports Sivajilingam has come to Chennai from London via Dubai. The Indian immigration officials have detained him at the airport and sent him back to without allowing him to enter the country.
Immigration officials clarified that the Tamil MP was not deported but denied an entry visa. The order to detain him and send him back has come from the central government, the officials said.
Sivajilingam, the Tamil National Alliance parliamentarian from Jaffna is contesting Sri Lanka presidential election as an independent candidate. He was an ardent supporter of the vanquished terrorist outfit of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
During the height of the war, Sivajilingam was in Chennai after taking leave of absence from the Sri Lanka parliament in October 2008. In December 2008, Indian government ordered Sivajilingam to voluntarily leave India or face deportation due to his controversial political conduct.
28/12/09 ColomboPage, Sri Lanka

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