• Soon after the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam government took over the reins of power in Tamil Nadu in 1989, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam slowly began to consolidate itself and its clandestine activities became more and more pronounced. The DMK government had also extended tacit support to the LTTE.
• The Commission concluded that the National Front government, headed by V P Singh, failed to take effective steps on the issue of growing connivance of the DMK government with the LTTE, when it was brought to its knowledge.
• Sri Lankan Tamil militancy took roots and grew during the period between 1981 and 1986.
• The central government had also helped militants in training and supplied them with arm during 1981 and 1986. The M G Ramachandran government in Tamil Nadu also supported the militants.
• The credibility of the Tamil Nadu government in 1989 plunged to a new low as far as their professed determination to control activities of Sri Lankan militants in the state was concerned, 1989 onwards.
• A DMK Rajya Sabha member V Gopalaswamy made a 24-day clandestine visit to northern Sri Lanka in February 1989, after the Indian Peace-Keeping Force operation.
• Rajiv Gandhi, in 1989, was keen that some satisfactory solution be arrived with the LTTE so that the Indo-Sri Lankan accord could be implemented in letter and spirit and sought the assistance of M Karunaidhi, then chief minister of Tamil Nadu.
• The policy of the V P Singh government to allow injured LTTE cadres to come into India and obtain treatment, enabled the LTTE to further consolidate their network in India.