Sri Lanka’s Tamil party to discuss reforms with Indian PM
Sri Lanka’s main Tamil political party on Monday said it will seek to discuss devolution of powers to the provinces when it meets Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Sri Lanka.
Modi is scheduled to visit Sri Lanka on March 13, his first since taking office last year and which will also be the first bilateral visit by an Indian prime minister to Sri Lanka in over 25 years.
India has been backing devolution of powers to the provinces in Sri Lanka under an agreement reached between India and Sri Lanka in 1987 as part of a solution to the ethnic conflict.
Tamil National Alliance (TNA) legislator M.A. Sumanthiran said they will discuss with Modi issues concerning the 13th Amendment which allows the provincial councils in Sri Lanka to have extensive powers including land and police powers, Xinhua news agency reported.
(IANS)
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These guys will not rest until they attain the ideals of their slain leader, the Late Mr V Prabakaram.
It appears now, they want land powers and police powers in the north and east. They will want Desavalamai, their own law.
Isn’t this separation? The Sinhala people of Sri Lanka will be prevented form buying land in the north and east. Their late leader ethnically cleansed the two provinces to ensure a monolithic population. Now Wigneswaram is saying there is genocide.
Sumanthiram (whose effigy was burnt by an elected representative of his own party in the NPC, a couple of days ago) wants to bully PM Modhi into 13 plus which lays the foundation for separation.
The Rajapaksa Government was too kind and did not proscribe the TNA. I hope the Yahapalanaya under Mythreepala Sirisena will recognize this threat and take democratic action to safeguard the integrity of our motherland.