TNA forms team for talks with Govt

By Ananth Palakidnar-2016-06-27

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has formed an eight-member team to find solutions to the crucial issues in the North and East.
The eight members were selected from the TNA's four constituent parties ...at a meeting held at the TNA and Opposition Leader R. Sampanthan's office in Colombo on Saturday (25).

The TNA's constituent parties, Illankai Tamil Arasu Katchchi, (ITAK) People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam(PLOTE),Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO) and Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) brought out the burning issues in the North and East and insisted on the necessity of holding negotiations with the Government.

Following an extensive discussion Sampanthan with the consent of all four constituent parties, formed an eight-member team to hold talks with Government leaders, President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.
The team comprises the leaders of the TNA's constituent parties and a member from each party. They will commence discussions this week to finalize the topics for the talks with the Government.

According to the TNA sources, as it was mentioned in the TNA manifesto at the Presidential and Parliamentary polls last year, the TNA has decided to expedite the process for negotiations with the Government with the forming of the new team.

Sampanthan will lead the ITAK, PLOTE will be led by D. Sitharthan MP, TELO by Selvam Adaikalanathan MP and the EPRLF by former Parliamentarian Suresh K Premachandran.

Others in the eight member team will be Mavai Senathiraja MP, former TELO Parliamentarian N. Srikantha, Sivashakthi Anandan MP and R. Ragavan.