This led the Indian Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh confessing before the media on this issue. “India’s foreign policy is based on domestic situation,” she said. But she fell short of saying categorically whether the Prime Minister will attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) scheduled in Colombo on November 15-17.

“It is not yet decided. I cannot comment,” she said.

The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has written to the Prime Minister Dr Singh to boycott the scheduled CHOGM meet as a symbol of solidarity with the suffering Tamil population ravaged by Sri Lankan forces in 2009.

The former Tamil Nadu chief minister and DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi and other political parties from the state including the state unit of the Congress want Singh to boycott the CHOGM Summit. Their demand, if accepted, could mark a rare instance of Indian diplomacy being dictated by regional politics, creating a precedent of sorts and possible collateral damage to relations with a strategically important neighbour.

With polls around the country expected in 2014, the Government is faced with a difficult option of reconciling the situation.

The promised rehabilitation and resettlement of the Tamil population aftermath the ravage caused in 2009 has moved at a tardy pace. The Sri Lankan Government has failed to live up to its promise for implementing the 13th Amendment to the Constitution for devolving powers to the Tamil population. The UN human rights body and human rights activists across the globe univocally condemned the inhuman elimination and torture of Tamil population by Sri Lankan forces in 2009, which India had cold shouldered.