It Has Become A Mad-Hatter’s Tea Party: Fooling And Fumbling With 13A
Prof Kumar David
The LSSP-CP, Rajitha Senaratne, SLMC,Douglas, Thonda and many in the SLFP who don’t want to show their hand, quite rightly oppose watering down or repealing 13A. Though 13A has weaknesses, the motive of those who attack it at this particular point in time (JHU, Gota, Wimal, BSS) is to deny Tamils opportunities similar to what Sinhalese have enjoyed for 25 years. The issue is not 13A per se, but a chauvinist onslaught on devolution of some power to the Tamils. At another time I would be willing to reconsider 13A in the context of a well thought out alternative devolution package.