TNA meets Sajith, Gota and Anura

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has held separate meetings with three presidential hopefuls last week.

Each presidential hopeful during the respective discussions had attempted to win the TNA’s support at the upcoming presidential election.

Accordingly, the TNA has held separate discussions with frontrunner in the United National Party’s (UNP’s) presidential candidacy race, Minister Sajith Premadasa, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) presidential candidate, Gotabaya Rajapaksa and National People’s Power (NPP) presidential candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake.

The TNA has also met President Maithripala Sirisena to discuss issues related to the North.

However, the TNA maintains that the meetings with the presidential hopefuls were carried out at an unofficial level and that official discussions would have to be held after nominations once the policy statements have been released. The TNA is to make a final decision on its support afterwards.

TNA Parliamentarian Dharmalingam Siddharthan has told the media that Rajapaksa met him and discussed the sentiments of the Tamil community on his decision to contest the election.

He and some other TNA members had also held unofficial talks with JVP Leader Dissanayake.

“Some of us met him separately in Parliament and we have discussed his policies. The party will need to meet with him for formal talks as well,” he said.

TNA Leader R. Sampanthan had met Premadasa and discussed his policies on the minority communities.