Monday, 18 November 2013 01:01
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The Tamil National Alliance’s massive victory in the Northern Provincial Council elections was widely anticipated, but it was now up to the elected administration to ensure the rights of minorities in their region were protected, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said during the press briefing yesterday.
“It is their responsibility now to look after the minorities in that province. Whether it is Muslims or Sinhalese – they are the minority in that area,” the President explained.
He was very happy about the TNA’s two-thirds majority, the President said, in response to a question posed about the TNA victory in the north despite the Government’s development drive.
President Rajapaksa urged the TNA to join the Parliamentary Select Committee process to recommend a political solution to the ethnic conflict. “It is better that everyone gets together and decides, instead of just one person making the decisions. I don’t want to be the one to do that,” he explained.
He vowed to accept a solution that came out of deliberations by the PSC.
