Press Trust of India / New Delhi October 09, 2012 |
A delegation of leaders of Sri Lanka's Tamil National Alliance (TNA) led by its parliamentary party chief R Sampanthan are arriving here tomorrow on a week -long visit during which they are likely to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Official sources said a seven-member TNA group will be in India and hold meetings with the leaders during which they are expected to apprise the leadership here on their proposal on political solution in Sri Lanka.
New Delhi has been pressing the Sri Lankan government to speed up the process of devolution of powers so that the Tamil citizens of the island nation can live with dignity.
Emerging as a powerful minority Sri Lankan Tamil political alliance in Sri Lanka, TNA secured a landslide victory in northern Sri Lanka in 2010 Parliamentary polls.
TNA, which handed over its proposals for a political solution to the Sri Lankan government last year during its series of talks with the ruling party, has been asking for total devolution of powers to the provinces and transfer of 'extensive financial and fiscal powers' to the provinces including land and police powers.
Talks between the government and the TNA have been deadlocked at the moment given the differences of opinion between the two sides on the participation in the proposed Parliamentary Select Committee.
Recently, the TNA has said that it is willing to join the Parliamentary Select Committee if India can provide an agenda for talks. Sri Lankan Government has been insisting that the political solution would only be home-grown.
