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GTF calls on Tamils abroad to help TNA achieve victory
View(s):The largest Tamil diaspora group in the United Kingdom, the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) has called upon the Tamil diaspora to help the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) achieve the best possible victory in the upcoming Northern Provincial Council elections.
“Tamils and others who live outside the North but registered to vote in the North must take the trouble to travel to ensure their votes too are counted in favour of the TNA. Tamils and other communities in the North to take an active part in the election, with the expectation the outcome will prove that a proud community with long history, however mistreated and brutalised, will not give up on the mission to achieve its legitimate political rights,” the Global Tamil Forum requested.
The GTF stated that it is its strong conviction that the existing power devolution arrangement under the 13th Amendment to the Constitution is not commensurate with the level of self-governance aspired to by Tamils in the North-East, and that a genuine state power sharing arrangement has to be arrived through political negotiations.
“We also note with alarm the steps being taken by the Sri Lankan Government to further weaken the 13th Amendment to the Constitution through a bogus Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) process, and welcome the attention of the international community, particularly India, on countering such regressive moves,” the diaspora group said.
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