The Tamil National Alliance (TNA), the main Tamil political party, has agreed to renounce its support to separation of Sri lanka and accept an undivided country.
The TNA on Tuesday agreed to submit an affidavit in the Supreme Court that Sri lanka is a unitary State during a hearing on six petitions filed by Sinhala majority nationalist organisations, media reports said. The Sinhala groups claimed that the TNA’s political objective was to divide Sri lanka and create a separate Tamil State in the north and eastern provinces.
The petitions said that during the last year’s northern provincial council election, the TNA’s election manifesto contained references to a separate State. The Tamil counsels for the TNA respondents submitted to the court that they accept that Sri lanka is a unitary State and that there was no intent to form a separate State.