It would be an insult to the war heroes who sacrificed their lives for their motherland if we gave into international pressure and held Provincial Council (PC) elections in the North, Technology and Atomic Energy Minister Champika Ranawaka said.

Speaking at the 4th anniversary of the Sri Lankan War Heroes’ Commemoration Day organised by the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) at the Public Library in Colombo on Saturday, the Minister said Indian politicians Karunanidhi and Jayalalithaa wouldn’t even be alive today to continue their politics against Sri Lanka if the late LTTE Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran had won the Eelam war.

He also said the same fate would have befallen Sri Lankan politicians such as Sampanthan, Rauff Hakeem or Azath Salley, if Prabhakaran is alive.

“If not for the war victory achieved by the government, Tamil and Muslim political leaders who are very vocal today would have met with the same fate as Amirthalingam,” Minister Ranawaka said.

“Karunanidhi, Jayalalithaa and Sampanthan are trying to take Sri Lanka to the past again with the help of foreign nations such as England and the United States of America. So it is the duty of every Sinhalese to convert the war victory into a political victory in the international arena,” Ranawaka said.

Ranawaka further stated that it was a historical error that a constitutional revolution was not brought about when the government had a two-thirds majority in Parliament, which was why the JHU initiated a Bill to repeal the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.(Jayashika Padmasiri)

Source: Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)