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The Opposition yesterday demanded to know from the government whether Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera had obtained prior permission from the President, the Prime Minister or the Cabinet of Ministers to have talks with the members of Global Tamil Forum, a banned pro-LTTE terrorist group in London.

Leader of the Opposition Nimal Siripala de Silva, making a special statement, said there were reports that Foreign Minister Samaraweera had held talks with the GTF, which had been acting against the national interests of Sri Lanka promoting separatist agenda and destroying Sri Lanka’s image at international forums. “There were further reports that the meeting had been facilitated by some non-governmental organisations based in South Africa, several Norwegian organisations and was attended by representatives of a political party in Sri Lanka and an MP of that party.

A motion of no confidence will be brought against Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe on June 9, former Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage said on Thursday (28).

The observation was made at a press conference held in Colombo.

“Some 85 opposition MPs have already signed for the motion,” he said, adding that over 100 Parliamentarians are supposed to sign it.

Once upon a time there was a beautiful island with wonderful people and it was called the “Pearl of the Indian Ocean “. The island is still beautiful and the people are still wonderful except for a few who consistently engage in a diabolical attempt to make it “Ugly “.

This is my response to the article published in the Daily Mirror of March 21^st titled “Mother Lanka as Sri Lanka Thaye “ written by DBS Jeyaraj. He says that the Tamil version of the National Anthem too salutes Mother Lanka and not an “Eelam”, and it was his hope and prayer that patriotic Tamils would be able to hail “Mother Lanka “as “Sri Lanka Thaye” in their “Thaai Mozhi” ( Mother Tongue).

නැවතත් උතුරේ රාජ්‍ය විරෝධී කල්ලි ක්‍රියාත්මක වීමට පටන්ගෙන ඇත. 2009 කොටි (දෙමළ) ත්‍රස්තවාදය පරාජය කිරීමෙන් පසු අවුරුදු පහකට වැඩි කාලයක් තිස්සේ උතුරේ රාජ්‍ය විරෝධී කල්ලි ක්‍රියාත්මක නො වී ය. එයින් කියැවෙන්නේ එකල උතුරේ දෙමළ ජාතිවාදයක් නොතිබූ බව නො වේ. දෙමළ ජාතිවාදය මතු නොව දෙමළ බෙදුම්වාදය ද උතුරේ තිබිණි. ඒ මතවාද එහි නැති නොවිණි. ඒ මතවාද විශේෂයෙන් ම ඊනියා උගත් දෙමළ ජනයා අතර විය. ඔවුන්ට බටහිරයන්ගේ ද ඉන්දීයයන්ගේ ද විසිරුණු දෙමළ ජනයාගේ ද අනුගයහය හා ආධාරය ලැබිණි. එහෙත් ඒ දෙමළ ත්‍රස්තවාදයක් කරා නැවත වර්ධනය නො විණි. එයට ප්‍රධාන හේතුව හමුදාව එහි පවත්වා ගෙන යෑම ය.