TNA will not participate in PSC

The Tamil National Alliance(TNA) has decided not to participate in the Parliamentary Select Committee(PSC) appointed to study and make relevant changes to the 13th amendment to the constitution, TNA MP Suresh Premachandran told Ada Derana.

Representatives of the main constituent political parties of the TNA, such as Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK), People’s Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE), Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) and the Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF), held a meeting today to take the decision.

On June 26 the JVP also stated that it will not nominate any of its members for the Parliamentary Special Committee to look into constitutional changes.

A Parliamentary Special Committee comprising 19 members to look into constitutional changes were appointed on June 21.

Minister Nimal Siripala De Silva was appointed as the chairman of the committee which also comprises of Professor G. L. Peiris, Maithripala Sirisena, W.D.J. Seneviratne, Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, Dinesh Gunawardena, Susil Premajayantha, Douglas Devananda, A.L.M. Athaullah, D.E.W. Gunasekara, Rishad Bathiudeen, Patali Champika Ranawaka, Wimal Weerawansa, Basil Rajapaksa, Lakshman Seneviratne, Vasudeva Nanayakkara, Muthu Sivalingam, Janaka Bandara and Sudarshani Fernandopulle.