Tamil and Muslim Parties met in Jaffna yesterday (02) and decided to enlist other Parties including Southern progressive forces.
Among the demands discussed during their meeting were;
●. Implementation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution in full
●. The conduct of Provincial Council Elections
●. The dismissal of Ven. Gnanasara Thera as the Chair of the ‘One Country One Law’ Presidential Task Force.
● Removal of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and the release of prisoners detained under the PTA
●. Halting of land grabs in the North and East of the country
Among those who attended the meeting were, Rauf Hakeem of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC), Mano Ganesan of the Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA), Selvam Adaikalanathan of the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO), Dharmalingam Siddharthan of the Democratic People’s Liberation Front (DPLF), Suresh Premachandran of the Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF), Srikantha of the Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF) and Prof. Sivapalan representing the Tamil Makkal Kootani (TMK) headed by C.V. Wigneswaran