TNA rejects separatism To file affidavit accepting Sri Lanka a unitary State
BY STANLEY SAMARASINGHE- July 16, 2014
Lawyers appearing for Mavai Senathirajah, Secretary of Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) and Tamil National Alliance (TNA), and President of TNA, R. Sampanthan, yesterday (15) agreed to submit an affidavit, to the Supreme Court, stating that Sri Lanka is a unitary State.
This was sequel to six cases filed in Supreme Court alleging that the political object of the TNA is to form a separate government in Sri Lanka.
Galage Don Punyawardana, Gunadasa Amarasekera, U. Abeykoon, Ven. Bengamuwe Nalaka Thera, U.K. Anura and Ravi Kumar were the petitioners in these cases.
In their petitions they stated that during the last Northern...
...Provincial Council elections, the ITAK and TNA distributed election manifestos among voters indicating that ITAK and TNA are in the process of planning to form a separate state in Sri Lanka.
The petitioners requested the Court to declare that ITAK and TNA objective was to form a separate state. The petitions were taken up by a Bench comprising Chief Justice Mohan Peries, Justices Rohini Marasinghe and Priyantha Jayawardane.
Counsels for respondents submitted to Court that the two parties accept that Sri Lanka is a unitary State and that they have no intention of formig a separate state. Counsels for the petitioners said that this must be declared by an affidavit to Court.
Respondents' lawyers agreed to submit affidavit to that effect. Court postponed the case to 22 September. Kanga Iswarn PC appeared with M.A. Sumanthiran and Luxman Jeyakumar for the respondents. Attorneys-at-Law Kaniska Wijeratna, Palitha Gamage and Kapila Gamage appeared for petitioners.
BY STANLEY SAMARASINGHE- July 16, 2014
Lawyers appearing for Mavai Senathirajah, Secretary of Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) and Tamil National Alliance (TNA), and President of TNA, R. Sampanthan, yesterday (15) agreed to submit an affidavit, to the Supreme Court, stating that Sri Lanka is a unitary State.
This was sequel to six cases filed in Supreme Court alleging that the political object of the TNA is to form a separate government in Sri Lanka.
Galage Don Punyawardana, Gunadasa Amarasekera, U. Abeykoon, Ven. Bengamuwe Nalaka Thera, U.K. Anura and Ravi Kumar were the petitioners in these cases.
In their petitions they stated that during the last Northern...
...Provincial Council elections, the ITAK and TNA distributed election manifestos among voters indicating that ITAK and TNA are in the process of planning to form a separate state in Sri Lanka.
The petitioners requested the Court to declare that ITAK and TNA objective was to form a separate state. The petitions were taken up by a Bench comprising Chief Justice Mohan Peries, Justices Rohini Marasinghe and Priyantha Jayawardane.
Counsels for respondents submitted to Court that the two parties accept that Sri Lanka is a unitary State and that they have no intention of formig a separate state. Counsels for the petitioners said that this must be declared by an affidavit to Court.
Respondents' lawyers agreed to submit affidavit to that effect. Court postponed the case to 22 September. Kanga Iswarn PC appeared with M.A. Sumanthiran and Luxman Jeyakumar for the respondents. Attorneys-at-Law Kaniska Wijeratna, Palitha Gamage and Kapila Gamage appeared for petitioners.
