Reacting to Union minister of state for , animal husbandry and dairying L Murugans comments that theTamil Nadugovernment had not written to the Union Government to take steps to release the 25 Tamil Nadu fishermen from the custody of Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu minister of fisheries-fishermen welfare and animal husbandry Anitha RRadhakrishnansaid that the State Government had taken up the issue with the ministry concerned and prime minister Narendra Modi.
Radhakrishnan said that the additional chief secretary in the ministry of fisheries-fishermen welfare and animal husbandry had written to the joint secretary of the Union ministry of external affairs and the prime minister on October 14 and on October 15 to take steps to release the 23 fishermen of Nagapattinam.