The Indo Lanka Agreement as many people would agree was imposed on us under the emergency laws of the JRJ government with Shri Rajiv Gandhi rushing to Colombo to dictate terms to JRJ with the notorious Dixit "overlooking" and "looking over" matters. The agreement is completely out of date today with Prabhakaran who killed Gandhi himself being killed, and the LTTE defeated. It has to be pointed out that we advocated the defeat of the LTTE by military means instead of negotiations based on the Indo Lanka Agreement against all odds even in 1987. All the main actors JRJ, Rajiv Gandhi, Prabhakaran, Dixt, Gamini Dissanayake are no more and only a person who would not understand simple reasoning and logic would believe in a Tamil homeland in the northern and the eastern provinces created by the British as late as 1889. The 13th Amendment which was based on the Indo Lanka Agreement should have no place in our constitution in the present form.

It is time that the Sri Lankan government starts negotiations with the Indian government to repeal the outdated Indo Lanka Agreement in the light of the change of context, and in this regard, the decision to review the 1950 Nepal-India Peace and Friendship Treaty should be an example.