"President To Call All-Party Meet On 13th Amendment": Lanka Minister To NDTV

"We have to understand that the 13th Amendment will enable autonomy to all provinces," Jeevan Thondaman, Sri Lanka Minister for Water Resources and Estate Infrastructure, told NDTV

Jeevan Thondaman, the youngest minister in Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe's cabinet, termed the bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Mr Wickremesinghe as "historic", and further added that this visit will renew relationship between the two countries.

Mr Thondaman, the Cabinet Minister for Water Resources and Estate Infrastructure, is part of Sri Lankan delegation's two-day visit to India - the one after Mr Wickremesinghe took oath as President of the island nation following its worst economic crisis.

Mr Thondaman told NDTV said that "this is going to be the decade of growth for Sri Lanka. We went through economic crisis, pandemic and so many other issues. It eventually led to course correction."