Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s former president and brother of current presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa, stated that his party would not concede to any demands made by the Tamil National Alliance, at a rally in Beliatta yesterday,
"There is no need to agree to any of the conditions,” Rajapaksa told the crowd. The country should come first. No one should be allowed to divide the country.”
Rajapaksa was eluding to a set of 13 demands put forward by five Tamil political parties to both leading candidates last week. Though Rajapaksa claimed his party did not receive any demands made by the Tamil parties, they would reject them regardless.
"We have to make a decision as a nation,” he continued. “We did put an end to the war by allowing people in the North to come to the South and vice versa.”
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