EPDP calls for elections to seek people’s mandate

EPDP leader and Minister Douglas Devananda said there was no element of truth to the vicious publicity campaign disseminated by the Tamil National Alliance to the effect that the EPDP was instrumental to the anti-social activities sparked in some quarters of the Northern society.

The minister said in a media statement that EPDP was the only political party acting with responsibility and restraint within a democratic framework since the implementation of the Indo-lanka Pact for winning the rights of the Tamil speaking people, though others resorted to violence and armed struggle, which ended up in nothing but total destruction.

The minister emphatically stated that the TNA was a conglomeration of several parties with crooked policies, promising the sun and the moon to the people of the North to win their hearts and minds and resorting to steps quite opposite to it, in the South.

The statement said:

“We are struggling at every risk to free the Tamil political prisoners.

We certainly will chase away the Security Forces from the Northern soil in the near future. We are doing all that is necessary to get the lands released to their rightful owners, presently occupied by the security forces and police, but they just do nothing, simply sitting on their laurels. Maybe people in the North are aware of their duplicity and inefficiency as evidenced by severe erosion of their vote base at the last Pradeshiya Sabha elections. These are what the TNA says in the North.

“TNA is formed of six parties, out of which, three, namely TELO, EPRLF and Tamil Arasu Kachchi, have already quit, leaving them in a desolate position. Its popularity, day by day, is fast eroding.