{"id":9282,"date":"2020-07-19T09:05:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T09:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9282"},"modified":"2020-07-19T09:05:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T09:05:12","slug":"tna-releases-election-manifesto-focused-on-political-solution-other-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/tna-releases-election-manifesto-focused-on-political-solution-other-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"TNA releases election manifesto focused on political solution, other issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) yesterday released its manifesto for the 5th August Parliamentary election, which assures continued efforts to achieve a political solution for the Tamils.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In releasing the manifesto in Jaffna yesterday, the TNA said that the alliance is prepared to work with the South to take forward Constitutional reforms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However, the TNA also asserts the need to strengthen the 19th Amendment to the Constitution and ensure democracy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">TNA spokesman M.A. Sumanthiran told reporters at the launch that the TNA is the only alliance which can ensure the rights of the Tamils are protected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that certain Tamil groups are contesting the election with the intention of securing only one or two seats in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sumanthiran said that such attempts will not serve the interests of the Tamils.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The TNA manifesto also notes the importance of implementing the UN Human Rights Council Resolution on Sri Lanka, which the current Government has withdrawn from.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The manifesto also looks at issues related to political prisoners, land, militarisation of the North and East and rehabilitated LTTE cadres.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">DG of Department of Archeology responsible for the destruction of historic building in Kurunegala &#8211; former Minister<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) yesterday released its manifesto for the 5th August Parliamentary&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}