'TNA trying to fulfil LTTE wishes'

By Uditha Kumarasinghe

Former Western Province Agriculture, Agrarian Development, Minor Irrigation Industries and Environment

Minister Udaya Gammanpila said a good number of political analysts and political parties failed to understand the ulterior motives of the TNA when they decided to contest for the Northern Provincial Council election.

The TNA wants to set up a separate State and they are the political arm of the LTTE. Now the TNA wants to make the unrealised dream of the LTTE, Tamil Eelam come true. During the period of LTTE terror, TNA leaders went to Kilinochchi and got instructions from Thamilselvan, Gammampila said.

He said the practiced was that when a military arm of an organisation was crushed, the political arm was also banned. That is why Hitler's Nazi Party is still banned in Germany. Similarly Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party is also banned in Iraq while the Taliban is a banned organisation in Afghanistan. Unfortunately, we didn't learn this lesson and allowed the TNA to survive despite the destruction of the LTTE.

" Therefore we have to be careful about the TNA's behaviour. I am of the view that President Mahinda Rajapaksa should seek a mandate to repeal the dangerous provisions in the 13th Amendment at the next Presidential Election."

Both Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Vigneswaran and TNA MP M.A. Sumanthiran are constitutional experts. They are well aware how the Constitution works. They know if they abuse the powers vested in them, the Central Government will abolish such powers by using its two thirds majority in Parliament. Because of that they are silent at this moment and are cooperative with the centre. As we know thousands of Northern youth sacrificed their lives for the LTTE cause.

Though they are wrong, they have bonded with kith and kin, so they still have emotional link with their lost loved ones. As a result, they have an emotional link with the TNA. The TNA's vote reflects the emotions of those living towards the lost ones.