TNA blames EPDP for Jaffna crime wave

20 January 2011 11:47 am

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) today blamed the crime wave in the Jaffna peninsula on the EPDP, an alliance partner of the ruling UPFA, and urged the government to resolve the situation.

TNA National List MP M.A.Sumanthiran moved an adjournment motion in Parliament in this regard and said there was a complete breakdown in the law and order situation in the North resulting in murders, kidnappings, extortion and other crimes.

Mr.Sumanthiran said the perpetrators had managed to get away in each of these incidents.
The situation has been further compounded that even a Government Minister from the area has thought the situation so serious that he himself raised this matter in the House on January 4, 2011, but no reply has been given by the government to date, he said. (YP, KB)