Need for TNA to join PSC stressed

by P.Krishnaswamy

The TNA should join the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) to work out a political solution to the problems of those in the North and the East since it will serve as a basis for suitable constitutional amendments for power sharing, Senior Minister of Scientific Affairs Prof. Tissa Vitharana told the Sunday Observer yesterday.

It will enable the TNA and the Government to exchange views and reach consensus of which all participating political parties will be stakeholders. They need to hold discussions with the Government to arrive at such consensus, he said.

He said so when asked for his comments on TNA parliamentarian Suresh Premachandren’s statement to the Sunday Observer that they have so far not decided on their representatives to the PSC because their experience with the Government during the past three years has been disappointing.

Prof. Vitharana who was Chairman of the All Party Representative Committee (APRC) that held several rounds of talks on the issue and submitted a report to the Government said that he was confident that the interests of the Tamil community, in particular, and also of all other communities can be addressed in a just and fair manner with the implementation of the PSC solution since it will be provided with the legal framework needed for the purpose.