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TNA unhappy with both candidates –Suresh
Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP Suresh Premachandran said yesterday that his party was unhappy with the two main presidential candidates because they had not offered any solutions to the burning issues faced by the Tamil people in the North and East.
He told Daily Mirror the ruling party had indicated that it would not rely on Tamil votes from the Northern and Eastern provinces while the common opposition candidate Maitripala Sirisena had sent some negative signals to the Tamil people.
“There is no solution offered to the problems of the Tamil people. There is no plan to resettle displaced Tamils. It seems that the common candidate is endorsing the views of Sinhala extremist forces backing him. Let alone a political solution, there is no approach even to address day to day problems,” Mr. Premachandran said.
He said the common opposition had articulated its stand against a federal setup of governance.
When asked whether the TNA would engineer a boycott of the election as done by the LTTE in 2005, he said, “I am not saying the TNA would boycott the election. But that the TNA is unhappy with both the candidates. How can we ask the Tamil people to vote for any of them when they have failed to offer anything to the Tamils?”
Mr. Sirisena has pledged to transfer the powers of the executive presidency to an all-party government if he is elected to the presidency at the January 8 election. However, he has decided to retain some powers such as defence and the power to appoint provincial governors. (Kelum Bandara)
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