The Tamil National Alliance MP Suresh Premachandran said on Monday that his party was unhappy with both candidates for the presidential elections next month.
Speaking to the DailyMirror, Premachandran said opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena had sent some negative signals to the Tamil people, while President Rajapaksa's party had indicated that it would not rely on Tamil votes from the North-East.
“There is no solution offered to the problems of the Tamil people. There is no plan to resettle displaced Tamils. It seems that the common candidate is endorsing the views of Sinhala extremist forces backing him. Let alone a political solution, there is no approach even to address day to day problems,” Mr. Premachandran said.
When asked whether the TNA would engineer a boycott of the election as done by the LTTE in 2005, he said, “I am not saying the TNA would boycott the election. But that the TNA is unhappy with both the candidates. How can we ask the Tamil people to vote for any of them when they have failed to offer anything to the Tamils?”
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