TNA’s decision to boycott the meeting with president is correct ‐ Mano Ganeshan

Western People’s Front (WPF) leader MP Mano Ganeshan said ,TNA’s decision to boycott the meeting with president was right, considering the fact that no proper solution has been put forward to the existing problem. He further added the people in the north had rejected the provincial council systems twenty years back and this cannot be forced in as a solution for the Muslim and Tamil community in the region.

He also stated there were several differences in opinion in decisions and proposals made during APRC meetings.

Mano Ganeshan said an expertise committee appointed by the APRC with many Sinhalese forming the numbers, had put forward a proposal which is reported to be very reasonable. The government too had agreed to keep this proposal as abase for further talks on the ethnic issue and a transcript of this proposal was given to the Indian premier.

Mano Ganeshan said the truth behind this was announced publicly by former minister and parliamentarian Mangala Samaraweera and subsequently the plans and ideas were dropped and even the Indian government did nothing better than contradicting the stories and information from the original set of documents they had received.