New Delhi: Visiting Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajpakse is to meet UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Minister of External Affairs Pranab Mukherjee in Delhi on Tuesday.
He will meet with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday.
The peace process is at the top of the agenda between the two leaders as India is concerned about the worsening humanitarian situation in the LTTE controlled North East.
They will also discuss economic cooperation in various projects.
The visit has met with protests in Tamil Nadu.
MDMK chief Vaiko and his party activists went on fast on Monday asking the Government not to sign any defence pact with Colombo.
Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi also observed a day-long fast on Monday in Chennai to condemn the "killing of innocent Tamils" in Sri Lanka.
The meeting comes just a day after the LTTE leader Prabhakaran gave a speech to his cadres accusing the Sri Lankan President of trying to destroy the LTTE and calling the Ceasefire agreement or CFA defunct.
Meanwhile, 13 Dalit Panthers of India (DPI) activists were taken into custody when they attempted to burn an effigy of Union minister Mani Shanker Aiyar condemning his reported invitation to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakshe for a function at his house, police said on Monday.
The activists were alleging that Aiyar during his recent visit to Colombo, had invited Rajapakse for his daughter's wedding at his residence in Delhi.
The activists who held a demonstration, were taken into custody before they could set ablaze Aiyar's effigy.
In a related incident, DPI leader Thol Thirumavalavan, in a statement in Chennai, condemned the "joint patrolling of Sri Lankan and Indian forces in the high seas".
In Sri Lanka, LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran has issued a statement calling for political independence for Tamils.
Prabhakaran said Tamils had been cheated by successive majority Sinhalese governments and would be fooled no more.
President Rajapakse has already ruled out a separate homeland.
Sri Lanka's two-decade civil war has killed more than 67,000 people since 1983, around 3,000 of those this year alone.
(With inputs from PTI)
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