A 1976 agreement barred Indian fishermen from waters around the 285-acre island in the Palk Strait
NEW DELHI – India's half-century-old decision to end a territorial dispute with Sri Lanka over a tiny island has become a hot-button election issue, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party accusing the rival Congress of compromising fishermen's rights.
His comments come a day after Modi accused the Congress of having "callously" given away the island, called Katchatheevu. Kharge said Modi raised the sensitive issue on the eve of the elections, though his government's attorney general had told the Supreme Court in 2014 that India would "have to go to war" if it wanted to recover the island from Sri Lanka.
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