The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has slammed a report on Sri Lanka’s Hiru News, which alleges that there has been a legal case filed against the part for “attempted secession”, as “irresponsible journalism” and denied all such claims.

The report, which comes a day before Sri Lanka’s presidential elections, claimed that the TNA was attempting to create a separate state for Tamils.

“There was no such agreement with anyone providing for the division of the country,” said the TNA in a tweet today. “This is irresponsible journalism at its worst.”

TNA parliamentarian M A Sumanthiran also tweeted that a memorandum signed by five Tamil politicial parties, including those part of the TNA, “does not provide for the division of the country”.

“Moreover it wasn’t placed before Mr Sajith Premadasa or any other candidate for that matter,” he added.

The TNA has come out in support of Sajith Premadasa at tomorrow’s polls, despite the fact that the candidate has not even responded to the Tamil demands and vowed to protect Sri Lankan war criminals from accountability mechanisms.

The latest Sri Lankan news about the Tamil party comes just days after Sumanthiran’s lawyers requested a criminal investigation into three Sri Lankan newspapers, who published articles stating that he called for voters to back Sajith Premadasa in next week’s presidential polls “in order to defeat the Sinhalese people”, even after the news was found to be false.