Land and Police powers should be given to NP -- Rathana Thera

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Land and Police powers should be given to the people of the Northern Province, said MP Athuraliye Rathana Thera yesterday.

Addressing the inaugural conference of the Sri Lanka National Council, he said that some MPs were constantly claiming to make a new Constitution to resolve the National issue -- which they define as Northern people’s land issues and Tamil speaking police in their areas.

“We, too, agree on giving land and police powers to the Northern community. A national policy should be adopted before the lands are given, as the poor deserve the lands, not the politicians nor any other wealthy men who claim them,” he said.

The Thera said that though former Prime Minister D S Senanayake had distributed Mahaweli lands, no other politician had done anything similar.

He also said that the armed forces should be kept under the Central Government and administrative powers could easily be transferred to the North.

“Instead of the khaki uniformed colonialist police personnel in High Security Zones, we could simply deploy police officers clad in white uniforms in the Northern areas without firearms. The war is over. Therefore we can give the Tamil people a police force with civil administrative powers,” he said.

He said that there was no need of policemen carrying weapons in the North, as they were only needed to prevent thefts and other minor offences.

Meanwhile, he said that the issues which were being highlighted in parliament to satisfy few persons could be resolved easily without going in for a referendum or changing the Constitution -- which would waste more time and money.(Thilanka Kanakarathna)

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Comments - 14

sobers Wednesday, 01 March 2017 09:15 AM

Very true! It is the Racists on either side, who are blocking and want another calamity in the country.

Kaboos Wednesday, 01 March 2017 09:22 AM

Thera very true We hope you will not change the plate in a weeks time.

Kiris Baba Amaray Wednesday, 01 March 2017 09:35 AM

Did you get any gift of a bunch of dollars Sadhu from LTTE?

Kadupol Jothywansa Wednesday, 01 March 2017 09:36 AM

This greedy man will twist his mouth on any angle for the sake of money.

Bubble Banda Wednesday, 01 March 2017 10:55 AM

Believe me, he enjoys a Super Luxury Life now. How is it?

lkboy Wednesday, 01 March 2017 11:00 AM

So has he joined the UNP?

ceylon Wednesday, 01 March 2017 11:12 AM

every citizen must live as he wish.not by force from others.otherwise war is the result. via DM Android App

MF1986 Wednesday, 01 March 2017 11:27 AM

Give same power to all Provinces. Otherwise, there is divination of NP from south.

haris Wednesday, 01 March 2017 02:24 PM

Remove all Police protection given to him as there is no war in the country.

david Thursday, 02 March 2017 12:13 AM

People of our country are responsible for all these nonsense. He is only one more of the politicians elected.

K.A.K.Perera Thursday, 02 March 2017 01:06 AM

Why only NP. give powers to all other provinces .The Police Powers given to the Police not using to. the benifit of the people.Police must go the public and correct their views.

vas Thursday, 02 March 2017 04:00 AM

as long as the 13th amendment is there this country will be run on the whims and fancies of india. constitutional changes must originate in sri lanka for this country to progress

ranjith chandrasekera Thursday, 02 March 2017 05:15 AM

Thera is trying to come to politics in much stronger attitude by satisfying the Northern Tamil community. He has no clear policies and twist and turn around from time to time.

kadawatta Friday, 03 March 2017 02:03 AM

why only those powers?..give them complete Ealam..Ane sadu///

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