HRCSL member to get TNA nomination
The talk of the town in Jaffna these days is how the Tamil National Alliance ( TNA) decided to field one of the five members of the
Human Rights Commission of Sri
Lanka ( HRCSL) as one of its candidates contesting from the
Jaffna district.
On Friday, Ambika Satkunanathan resigned from the HRCSL to contest the upcoming Parliamentary polls.With the TNA finalising its nomination lists this week, this came as a surprise for many in the party, also. While the party hierarchy believes that Ms Satkunanathan would be the ideal choice to represent the war-affected people of North in Parliament, it also caused concerns among other male politicos who are contesting from the same electoral district, considering the voting pattern of people who favour well known-influential persons.
Ms Satkunanathan is a researcher and human rights activist engaged in the field for decades prior to her appointment as one of the five members of the HRCSL in 2015. From 1998 to 2014, she functioned as Legal Consultant to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Sri Lanka.