LSSP URGES GOVERNMENT TO IMPLEMENT LLRC
The Lanka Sama Smaja Party (LSSP) one of the constituent parties had urged the government to fully implement the recommendations of the LLRC, and also to activate the Select Committee of Parliament to help solve the national question.
General Secretary of the LSSP, Senior Minister Prof. Tissa Virtharana in a review of the LLRC report said the efforts of hostile forces abroad whose aim is ‘regime change’ can be effectively countered if and when the government take the correct decisions and that the Tamil and Muslim politicians must play a constructive and positive role in taking forward the process of reconciliation and achieving a credible political solution.
“Rather than being hypercritical and chauvinist they should be more balanced. The TNA must become the responsible voice of the Tamil people, and no longer that of the LTTE lobby. This will go a long way to dispel the fears generated that devolution may be abused to achieve the separation that was the objective of the LTTE,” Minister Vitharana emphasized.
The LLRC report provides a positive and constructive basis for achieving reconciliation and national unity. The conclusions drawn are clearly fair and the recommendations are sensible, and it is our hope that the Government will implement them, soon and as completely as possible.
It is sad that there are parties that are still not prepared to learn from our tragic history. It is because power was concentrated in Colombo that we had two JVP insurrections and the entire ethnic conflict and war led by the LTTE. It is through the devolution of adequate powers to the provinces (states) that India has stayed together, despite the British prediction that India would break up within 10 years of independence.
The incident of the blocking of the entry of the head of the Congress Party of India to the UP State, which to my knowledge is the only such instance that has occurred in over 60 years in independent India, was due to a peculiar set of legal circumstances exploited by Chief Minister Mayawathie.