{"id":40526,"date":"2015-01-02T15:26:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T22:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=40526"},"modified":"2015-01-02T15:26:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T22:26:01","slug":"you-know-what-we-want-from-maithri-sambandan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/01\/02\/you-know-what-we-want-from-maithri-sambandan\/","title":{"rendered":"‘YOU KNOW WHAT WE WANT FROM MAITHRI’ – Sambandan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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‘We do not want pacts or agreements but to achieve our objectives’<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Tamil National Alliance leader Parliamentarian R. Sambandan has told Foreign Correspondents that what the TNA wants is to achieve their final objectives under a future ‘Maithree’ government.<\/p>\n

Sambandan had disclosed this when foreign correspondents spoke to him after a TNA press conference recently and posed several questions. The questions asked and the answers given by Sambandan are as follows:<\/p>\n

Q: Has the TNA signed a pact with Maithripala Sirisena?<\/p>\n

A: What we want is not pacts or agreements but to achieve our objectives when Maithripala Sirisena wins.<\/p>\n

Q: What are these objectives?<\/p>\n

A: That is what we have wanted from the incumbent President for the last 10 years. You all know what it is.<\/p>\n

Q: Supposing those are not given?<\/p>\n

A: When Maitripala Sirisena wins, the Executive Presidency will be abolished. Thereafter, we will gain what we want through the means of Parliament. Our problem is the Executive Presidency.<\/p>\n

Q: What is your opinion about Rauf Hakeem’s demand for a separate Muslim administrative unit?<\/p>\n

A: It is not wrong on their part to demand it according to their need.<\/p>\n

When foreign correspondents asked him why does he not state these things in public Sambandan bade adieu and made a quick exit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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‘We do not want pacts or agreements but to achieve our objectives’ Tamil National Alliance leader Parliamentarian R. Sambandan has told Foreign Correspondents that what the TNA wants is to achieve their final objectives under a future ‘Maithree’ government. Sambandan had disclosed this when foreign correspondents spoke to him after a TNA press conference recently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}