Sri Lanka has no language parity, with a ‘Sinhala Only’ language policy ruling across the Tamil North-East, said the government’s Minister of National Dialogue Mano Ganesan.
“Still the Tamil speaking communities are governed by the Sinhala only language policy mechanism,” said the minister, who has threatened to quit from his post.
“As the sole authoritative for official language policy implementation, I am answerable to the questions raised by the people’s representatives of the Tamil speaking community,” he said noting that “language parity is the prelude to the national coexistence”.
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“Still the Tamil speaking communities are governed by the Sinhala only language policy mechanism,” said the minister, who has threatened to quit from his post.
“As the sole authoritative for official language policy implementation, I am answerable to the questions raised by the people’s representatives of the Tamil speaking community,” he said noting that “language parity is the prelude to the national coexistence”.
See more from Colombo Telegraph here.