“We will defeat the extremists and communalists in all the communities,” a confident Ganeshan told a group of correspondents on Friday. Sinhalese extremists said that the constitution is going to be a “federal one” which will lead to secession of the Tamil speaking provinces. Above all, Buddhism, the religion of the majority Sinhalese, will cease to have the “foremost place” in the constitution, they said. The Tamil extremists’ propaganda is that the Sinhalese troops adamantly want to stay in the Tamil areas. The moderate Tamil National Alliance, which has the largest number of Tamil MPs, is agreeable to this formula, Ganeshan said.

Source: bd News24 July 22, 2017 05:26 UTC