We don’t want Federal Solution, says Sumanthiran in Galle
We are not demanding Separate State now. Hence there is no need for the country to be split. We also don’t want Federal Solution also. The TNA which has said for a long time that amendments be made to the current PCs and more power be devolved and that the proper time had come for the current government to solve the long persisting problems of the Tamils. If the problems are solved now, ethnic problems will not raise their heads in the future, insisted the spokesman of the TNA and MP, M.A. Sumanthiran while speaking in a people seminar on New Constitution and the 20th amendment held at Galle, day before yesterday.
The past Constitutions have not satisfied the aspirations of the Tamil people .This new constitution also will not satisfy them. But it may be a starting point.
People are saying that the country will be divided by the new constitution. We don’t say like that. Some say that we are calling for a federal system. No. We don’t want Federal system. It will be enough if amendments are made in the Provincial Council act and devolve power, he said.
