| The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) will not participate in the proposed Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) that will formulate proposals to address Tamil grievances if there was ‘no proper response to its own proposals’.
TNA MP M.Sumanthiran said that in the absence of a proper response from the Government to their proposals it would be meaningless to take part in the PSC. “We submitted our proposals to the Government in March during our talks with it. However since then we have had several rounds of talks but the Government has side-stepped the issue,” he said.
He, however, said that the TNA has not closed the door to future talks with the Government. ”Our doors are open. The Government can decide on the next round for talks and inform us,” he added.
He said that the ten rounds of talks had not yielded any results with the Government dragging its feet on important issues.
Mr. Sumanthiran opined the TNA is also concerned about the statement made by Minister Basil Rajapaksa who said the TNA should have faith in the PSC and that of Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa who had said that the present Constitution was sufficient and there were no problems to be resolved. “We want to know the position of the President on this issue,” he said. |
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