In another letter to the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister said : 'In view of the popular antipathy and anger in Tamil Nadu against the actions of the Government of Sri Lanka, the Government of Tamil Nadu is of the view that IPL matches involving Sri Lankan players, umpiresand other officials should not be played in Tamil Nadu.'

She said BCCI may be advised by the Centre to prevail upon the IPL Organizers not to allow Sri Lankan players, officials, umpires and support staff to take part in the tournament in the state.

'The Government of Tamil Nadu will permit IPL matches to be held in Tamil Nadu only if the organizers provide an undertaking that no Sri Lankan players, umpires, officials or support staff would participate in these matches,” the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister in the letter said.

The sixth edition of Indian Premier League (IPL) is slated to begin on April 3 and will continue till May 26. Altogether 13 Sri Lankan players, two of whom are captains of their respective teams, are taking part in the event.

Chennai, the home for Chennai Super Kings, will stage 10 matches in all, including two eliminators, and a top BCCI official said that it will continue to remain a venue.

The IPL Chairman Rajeev Shkla when asked to comment on the situation, said : 'We are reviewing the situation after the latest development and we will take a call. But we will go ahead with the tournament and Chennai will continue to be a venue.'

This is not the first instance of Jayalalithaa taking a strong stand against Sri Lankan sportspersons.

In February, Tamil Nadu refused to host the Asian Athletics Championships due to the participation of Sri Lanka. Last year, she sent back two Sri Lankan football teams that were in Tamil Nadu for training sessions, and even asked the Indian government to scrap training sessions for Sri Lankan Air Force personnel in the state.

Meanwhile in Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu fishermen protesting against continued attacks by Sri Lankan Navy have called off their strike on Tuesday. The fishermen were on strike for the past seven days which had led to rise in domestic fish prices and crores of export loss. The fishermen said that they decided to venture into the sea to save their livelihood. They urged the central government to take action to stop the attacks by Sri Lankan Navy. Meanwhile the indefinite strike by Rameswaram fishermen entered the twelfth day today. The fishermen are on strike urging the release of 19 fishermen from Rameswaram who are still lodged in Sri Lankan jail.

According to diplomatic sources with the growing anti-Sri Lanka sentiments in Tamil Nadu, Colombo may shift its deputy high commission office out of Chennai.
As public protests urging the Indian government to pressurize Sri Lanka to do justice to war victims is mounting in Tamil Nadu, both the DMK and AIADMK are up in arms against the central government.

DMK was in the ruling UPA Coalition at the Centre and had to part their ways on account of the Government’s policy towards Sri Lankan Tamils. DMK was insisting that as the Sri Lankan Government did not do much to rehabilitate the Tamil civilian population, who were the victims of 2009 war, India should urge for amending the US resolution on human rights violation and thus make it more stringent for application before it was passed in UNHRC.

The Tamil parties also demanded that the Government table a resolution of human rights violations in Sri Lanka in the Parliament and call for setting up an independent global agency to study the war crimes committed in 2009. But unfortunately none of the things were taken on board.

With polls ahead, the public protests against India’s policy towards Sri Lanka are continuing. The Tamil parties, therefore, have come under pressure. They cannot afford the things to be taken for granted as they did in 2009.

After 26-years of Tamil insurgency the Sri Lanka's forces brutally cracked down on the LTTE in 2009 and wiped them out uprooting and killing many civilian population
This action came under the lens of human rights violation in reports by UN agencies and other international organisations.

Sri Lanka’s military action left at least 100,000 people dead, but there are still no confirmed figures for tens of thousands of civilian deaths in the last months of battle: estimates range from 9,000 - 75,000.

One UN investigation said it was possible up to 40,000 people had been killed in the final five months alone. Other human rights groups suggest the number of deaths could be even higher.

Video footage has also emerged appearing to show serious abuses committed by the army.

But the Sri Lankan government released its own estimate last year, concluding that about 9,000 people perished in those few months.

The Sri Lankan government commissioned its own investigation into the war in 2011.

Its Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) cleared the military of allegations that it deliberately attacked civilians. It said that there had been some violations by troops, although only at an individual level.

In November 2012 an internal UN report said that the UN had failed in its mandate to protect civilians in those final months of the civil war.