Sri Lanka’s minister of Ports and Shipping Mahinda Samarasinghe said that the Sri Lanka Freedom Party will hold its party May day rally in Batticaloa.
The SLFP Central Committee has taken this decision during the meeting headed by Persistent Maithripala Sirisena said the minister, reports the Sri Lanka Boradcasting Cooperation.
Minister Nimal Siripala De Silva has been appointed to organise the May Day Rally, added Mr Samarasinghe.
The SLFP may day rallies, which attract large Sinhala nationalist crowds, are usually held in Sinhala majority areas. The current selection to hold the rally in a majority Tamil area raises a significant question about the message being sent out to the Tamil community by Sri Lanka’s president.