TNA Spokesperson demands disciplinary action against Sampanthan and Sumanthiran

While expressing strong condemnation over Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Leader R.Sampanthan and TNA Parliamentarian Sumanthiran’s participation at the Sri Lanka’s independent day celebration yesterday, TNA spokesperson and parliamentarian Suresh Premachandran has demanded for disciplinary action to be taken against them.

“We already raised our objection against his decision to attend the Independence Day celebrations. It is unbecoming for the TNA leader to go against the traditional party position that reflects the common will of the affected Tamil people. It is their individual decision and the TNA has nothing to do with it,”   Suresh Premachandran has told a media.

He further said  “The Tamils have been systematically marginalised, suppressed and oppressed after the Independence in 1948 and ironically Mr. Sampanthan was one of the key Tamil political leaders when it was decided to mark February 4 as a Black Day. Nothing has changed and in fact has gone worse for the Tamils since then. We don’t see any reason for Mr. Sampanthan or anybody from the main Tamil parties to violate the common Tamil stand after 43 long painful years”.