Happy with the way Lanka is handling Tamils issue: Minister

Electricity, sports and youth affairs minister of Yuva province in Sri Lanka, Senthil Thondaman, today said he was happy with the Lankan government's handling of the Tamils issue.

"We are happy the way the issue (of Tamils in Lanka) is being handled by the Sri Lankan government," he said in response to a question on the problems of internally displaced Tamils in the island nation.

Thondaman, on the way to Chennai en route to Colombo, from Tirupur near here, told reporters that the Tamils did not have any problems in Yuva province.