Before President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s visit to India, six Tamil political parties in the north have sent a letter to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Sri Lanka Latest News
EPRLF, PLOT, Telo, Tamil Janata National Front, Tamil National Party and the rehabilitated former LTTE. This letter is addressed by the signatures of the leaders of the six parties, the Democratic Fighters Party, which is made up of members.
These parties request the Prime Minister of India to force the Sri Lankan government led by the President to fully enforce the 13th Constitutional Amendment brought in accordance with the Indo-Lanka Agreement signed in 1987 as a solution to the ethnic crisis in the North Eastern Provinces.
These parties have further requested that according to the 13th amendment, many powers including police lands have been brought under the central government and to intervene to give those powers back to the provincial councils.
As all the Provincial Councils, including the North and East, are currently inactive, the leader of the Tamil Janata National Front, Member of Parliament C.V. Wigneswaran said.
The President will be on an official visit to India on the 20th and 21st.
