TNA’s hidden agenda will be bared

by Uditha Kumarasinghe

Construction, Engineering Services, Housing and Common Amenities Minister Wimal Weerawansa said the UPFA could win the Northern Provincial Council or pose a serious political challenge to racist and separatist elements in the North.

Minister Weerawansa said that this was the first time in recent history that people in the North exercised their franchise freely after three decades of terrorism.

Holding this election would help pave the path for a new political ideology for the Tamil community in the North.

The election results will show a sense of national harmony among people in the North as opposed to the TNA’s racist ideology, the Minister told the Sunday Observer yesterday.

The Minister said the TNA is determined to grab power in the Northern Provincial Council and show the international community that they have won a mandate for self-rule in the North.

The TNA in its political manifesto had set out a series of proposals which go beyond the limits of the Constitution. The TNA’s ultimate goal is to present a resolution at the UNHRC to demerge the North and the East. It is obvious that the TNA is a part of some international campaign against the Government, he said.

The Minister said the TNA leaders are trying to drag the next generation of Tamil youth to take up arms again.

That is why TNA Chief Ministerial candidate C.V. Vigneswaran had warned that if more powers are not given to the North, they would have to take up arms. However, Vigneswaran or Sampanthan’s sons will never take up arms.

They are leading luxurious lives in foreign countries. We have never heard that even a single child of these so-called TNA leaders had died due to LTTE terror.