 With both the Union and the State governments flexing their muscles on Friday against the Tamil Eelam Supporters Organisation (TESO) conference, the meeting organised by DMK chief M Karunanidhi has run into rough weather.
While the Centre told the Madras high court that it would not allow the organisers to use the word 'Eelam' in the title of the conference to be held in Chennai on Sunday, the state government said it might deny permission for the international meet.
The Madras High Court on Friday directed the Chennai Police Commissioner to consider an application seeking permission for conducting the Eelam Tamils Livelihood Rights Conference, organised by the Tamil Eelam Supporters Organisation (TESO), at YMCA, Royapettah, on August 12, and pass appropriate speaking orders.
As two PILs against holding the TESO conference came up for hearing before a division bench of the high court comprising Justices Elipe Dharma Rao and M Venugopal, the Centre in a communication said it had "no objection from a political angle for the proposed international conference with foreign participants with the provision that 'eelam' be dropped from the title of the conference and subject to clearance by the Ministry of Home Affairs and other competent authorities".
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