‘TNA should relax its rigid stance’:

Unite for a common proposal, says PLOTE leader

by P. Krishnaswamy

PLOTE leader Dharmalingam Sitharthan welcomed EPDP leader Minister Douglas Devananda’s call to the TNA to unite with the other Tamil parties to put forward a common proposal to President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

He also endorsed Devananda’s statement, made in Parliament recently that the President would certainly consider such a proposal since he has repeatedly called for it.

Devananda told Parliament that considering the decades-long suffering and losses of the Tamils he was making a sincere and brotherly request to the TNA to relax its rigid stance and try reach a consensus with the other Tamil parties on evolving a common proposal to be presented to the President. Devananda too had been attracted earlier by the rhetoric of heroism and freedom struggle but later realised the folly of it after seeing the untold losses and extreme hardships experienced by the people, he said.

Sitharthan said that evolving a common proposal is the dire need of the hour to address the Tamil issue without any further delay.

They had made efforts towards that end and the Tamil Parties Forum was formed.