TNA boycotts district meet

November 20, 2013

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) boycotted the Kilinochchi District development meeting held today.

The party had boycotted the Jaffna District development meeting held yesterday as well while Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran was also absent for both meetings.

Government Minister and EPDP leader Douglas Devananda said the TNA boycott was for political gain while there was a debate on the reasons behind Wigneswaran’s absence.

He also said that some important discussions and decisions could have been taken had Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited Sri Lanka last week.

Speaking at the Kilinochchi District development meeting today, Devananda said that had the Indian Premier visited Sri Lanka there could have been important discussions held on the Indian housing project.

However he said local politics resulted in the Indian Prime Min