COLOMBO, July 3 -- A delegation representing Sri Lanka's Tamil National Council (TNC) has urged Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay. to initiate an all-party conference aimed at building a unified political stance on the Tamil question in Sri Lanka, including opposition to the 13th Amendment as a framework for resolving the ethnic issue.

The appeal was made during a meeting held at the Tamil Nadu Secretariat in Chennai on Thursday (2) between Chief Minister Vijay and a seven-member delegation led by Jaffna District MP and Tamil National People's Front (TNPF) leader Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam. Members of the delegation included former TNPF MP Selvarasa Gajendran, Tamil National Green Movement leader Ponnuthurai Aingaranesan, Democrat...