The Chief Minister of the Northern Provincial Council C.V. Wigneswaran has said that they do not expect a total power-sharing. He also said that he personally thinks that that they could go to the Parliamentary Select Committee
The Northern Chief Minister was speaking at the National Conference on ‘Post-war Socio-economic Development of the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka’ organized by the University Grants Commission.
Breaking away from the somewhat rigid standpoint of the TNA, Wigneswaran admitted that the Tamils cannot expect to have total power-sharing but a solution where at least the majority is shared, is good enough. He recalled that when Sampanthan visited India, he had said that he wanted nothing short of the Federal model. But Wigneswaran emphasized that he was personally prepared to accept something less than that. They need to change the attitudes of the people and go for the best possible solution. At this point he said that they do not want their own homeland. What they needed was only power-sharing within a united country.”
Responding to a question posed to him by the academia of the UGC with regard to a lack of participation of the TNA in talks with the government, he said, he personally thinks that they could go to the PSC. There they will meet with all the government members who view the problem in the same way and voice the same opinion. He further asked the academia to contribute by coming up with a set of proposals that both the government and the TNA could work with.
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