The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has appointed a committee to examine if it should contest the much-awaited Northern Provincial Council election in September.
Media reports, quoting TNA sources, said a 15-member committee representing the five parties which form the TNA would examine the political situation with regard to the election in the North.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Friday signed an official proclamation enabling the Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya to hold the polls in September.
Deshapriya had said earlier this month that election could be held on either September 21 or 28.
The country’s main Tamil political party had held a similar gathering last week, where 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), decided not to participate in the Parliamentary Select Committee(PSC) appointed to study and make relevant changes to the 13th amendment to the constitution.
