A special meeting was held between the Tamil National Alliance and President Maithripala Sirisena this morning.
According to political sources, Sirisena has requested the TNA to abstain from supporting the UNP motion to that is to be presented in parliament today to express confidence in ousted Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.
It is also reported that President Sirisena had promised to accede to all of TNA’s requests if they are loyal to him. Sirisena had intimated that it was Wickremesinghe who was responsible for destroying the country and pointed out that the UNP leader was the one who had rejected all of Sirisena’s proposals with regard to the devolution of power with the support of racist political parties.
It is also reported that the President had promised to release all Tamil prisoners, even tomorrow, if the TNA were to extend their support to him.
Sources also said that the TNA parliamentarians who attended the meeting had left without giving a response to the president’s requests.
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