A Brief Colonial History Of Ceylon(SriLanka)
Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
?????????????????????????????????????????????????Monday, June 19, 2017
My way or the highway
Pirassath Maheshwaran-Monday, June 19, 2017
Members of three constituent parties of the TNA, namely the TELO, PLOTE
and EPRLF have decided to sit independently in Parliament and the
Northern and Eastern Provincial Council if the No-Confidence Motion
(NCM) against Chief Minister C. V. Wigneswaran is moved, internal party
sources said. The two factions failed to reach a compromise despite
repeated talks held yesterday.
The crisis comes in the wake of the ITAK, the main constituent party’s
insistence on permitting two ministers to continue to work pending a
fresh investigation.
A team led by the Leaders of TELO, PLOTE and EPRLF met with Chief
Minister Wigneswaran on Saturday. After this meeting Wigneswaran has
sent a reply to Opposition Leader R Sampanthan over the latter’s request
not to take action against the two NPC ministers on whom there is no
finding of guilt by the board of inquiry.
In his reply, Wigneswaran has stated that his position on Provincial
Health Minister Dr. P Sathyalingm and Civil Transport and Fisheries
Minister B.Denishwaran could be reconsidered, if Sampanthan could make
an assurance that they (Denishwaran and Sathyalingm) would not influence
the fresh investigations to be held over the allegations. However, it
was learnt that Opposition Leader Sampanthan yesterday sent another
letter to Wigneswaran informing that he could not and have no right to
make such an assurance on behalf of two Provincial Ministers who are
under Wigneswaran.
In the meantime, the two camps of the TNA convened separate meetings
yesterday. The Provincial Council members who support the Chief Minister
were to meet him yesterday evening, while the members of ITAK, the
remaining constituent Party of the TNA, were to meet with their Leader
MP Mavai Senathirajah in the afternoon.
MP Senathirajah also met with religious leaders in Jaffna yesterday to
educate them on the latest political developments in the NPC.