TNA raises land issue at Jaffna District Coordinating Committee meeting
Tuesday, 22 April 2014 00:01
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The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) yesterday once again raised the issue of private land being acquired by the Government in the Jaffna District.
The issue was raised at the Jaffna District Coordinating Committee meeting held in Jaffna under the joint chairmanship of Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran and Minister and EPDP leader Douglas Devananda.
At the meeting, TNA MP M.A. Sumanithran had proposed that an agreement be reached to urge the Government to stop acquiring private land and to return land acquired in Valikamam North.
Several TNA members and others who attended the meeting backed the proposal put forward by Sumanithran. The Army had last year acquired privately owned land in Valikamam North despite opposition raised by the owners and the TNA.
“I moved that the acquisition process be abandoned, Section 2 Notices be withdrawn and the lands be handed back to the owners. This was seconded by MP Chandrakumar and adopted unanimously,” Sumanithran told the Colombo Gazette.
The Jaffna District Coordinating Committee meeting was held for over five hours and will resume again on 26 May.
(Colombo Gazette)
