DMK's high-level committee meet on March 20 to discuss Lanka resolution

With India under pressure from Dravidian parties in Tamil Nadu to support a US-sponsored resolution in the UNHRC against Sri Lanka for alleged war crimes, UPA's key constituent DMK on Saturday announced convening of its high-level committee on March 20 to discuss the issue.Party chief M Karunanidhi will chair the meeting on Tuesday morning at its headquarters here, DMK general secretary K Anbazhagan said in a statement here.The agenda at the meeting would be "India supporting the resolution on Sri Lankan army's war crimes against Ealam Tamils," he said.DMK's decision is being perceived as a pressure tactic as Karunanidhi had repeatedly stressed on India's backing of the resolution at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).He had recently said DMK would consider it as a "betrayal of Tamils" New Delhi supporting Colombo even as a Sri Lankan official had claimed to have secured India's support for it in UNHRC.The high-level committee is scheduled at a time when DMK has been adopting a 'blow-hot-blow-cold' stand on its eight year-old ally Congress.Asked if he would review his party's support to the Centre if it failed to concede to its demand in the UNHRC, Karunanidhi had said he cannot take a decision by himself and that the executive would decide on it.