Joint May Day rally in Jaffna:

TNA’s invitation to UNP, a good move

by Uditha KUMARASINGHE

Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne said the TNA’s decision to invite Southern parties for a joint May Day rally in Jaffna was a good move.

“It is a very positive development for a Southern party to have its May Day rally in Jaffna and I am happy about it. Even President Mahinda Rajapaksa said he was happy about the UNP conducting its May Day rally in Jaffna.

I was happy when I heard that the UNP had teamed up with the TNA to hold a May Day rally”, the Minister told the Sunday Observer.

“It is also a positive sign that the TNA is willing to join the Sinhala parties in the South. I was very happy when I read in the newspapers that Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and TNA MP R.Sampanthan had held the national flags together,” the Minister said.

Dr.Senaratne said the TNA held a May Day rally in Jaffna after many decades and the Opposition Leader and UNPers could go to the North due to the Government freeing the North from the clutches of terrorists.