TNA should campaign for Candidate Wickramabahu Karunaratne identified as a person who has espoused Tamil aspirations throughout history..!!!

TNA looking at five options

By Kelum Bandara

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) is currently looking at five options to be taken at the upcoming Presidential election, but the final stand is to be decided at the Parliamentary group meeting scheduled for next week, party sources said.

Party sources said that one section of the TNA has highlighted that they should talk to the two main candidates and support one of them while some others are pressing to field a Tamil candidate representing the party with the possible support of other likeminded Tamil parties.

A second source said some TNA MPs do not want to support of any of the two main candidates,

but leave it open for the Tamil people to decide. There are views within the TNA that they should campaign for Candidate Wickramabahu Karunaratne identified by them as a person who has espoused Tamil aspirations throughout history.

The last option being considered by the TNA is to boycott the election as done in 2005. Sources said that the group meeting would be held prior to the next parliamentary session scheduled for December 8.

“The TNA will take a decision bearing in mind the political realities in the country at the moment,” sources said.

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