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Budget besties

TNA MP Maavai Senathirajah and leader R. Sampanthan delighted to shake hands with President Rajapaksa. (Photographs BBC Sinhala)

The leadership of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) celebrated the 2015 budget with the Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa on Friday.

TNA MP Suresh Premachandran smiles on at Sampanthan-Rajapaksa exchange.


The opposition party, UNP, JVP and JHU meanwhile, were not in attendance, according to BBC Sinhala.

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Photograph The Island


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