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TNA lights up parliamentary complex
Twenty-one members of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) commemorated the LTTE's Heroes' Day last evening outside the Parliament building by lighting oil lamps around the pond in front of it.

The lamps were lit at 6.35 p.m., the time set by the LTTE to remember its cadres killed in the fighting with security forces. It also took place a few minutes after the House was adjourned following the passing of the second reading of the UPFA government’s budget..

Policemen on duty approached the MPs to inquire what they were doing. The MPs told them they were marking Heroes’ Day and the policemen did not interfere. A curious Minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle also made inquiries from the MPs and did not disturb them when he was told that they were commemorating Heroes' Day.

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