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| Court restrains TULF from holding CC meeting by Indeewara Thilakarathne Colombo Additional District Judge Lalith Jayasuriya yesterday issued a restraining order preventing the 1st and 2nd respondents or the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) from holding the Central Committee meeting scheduled for December 21 at Ampara, pending an Interim Order on the matter. The Court also issued an order restraining the 1st and 2nd respondents from taking any decision to hold a meeting of the party without permission from the plaintiff, V. Ananda Sangaree. In this case the plaintiff V. Ananda Sangaree has cited TULF members R. Sampathan and Joseph Pararajasinghem as respondents. The plaintiff further states that he was appointed the President of the TULF after the demise of Mr. Sivasitamparam. According to the party constitution, the party General Secretary shall call a meeting on the advice of the party president. The plaintiff further states that the General Secretary had called a Central Committee meeting on November 30, 2003 and that the plaintiff presided over it. At the meeting a no-confidence motion was moved against the plaintiff and that a member raised an objection, at the stage, to the motion stating that the Central Committee was not empowered to consider such a motion. However, later through the media the 1st and the 2nd respondents stated that the No-Confidence Motion was passed with 25 votes out of 27 at the said Central Committee meeting and that the plaintiff should resign from the post and the plaintiff did not accept the claim by the respondents. The plaintiff states that he had not called for the scheduled Central Committee meeting on December 21,2003 at Tirukkovil in Ampara. The principal alligation levelled at the plaintiff by the respondents was that the plaintiff had refused to accept the LTTE as the sole representative of the Tamils that included in the statement by the 2nd respondent to the "Sunday Times" of December 7,2003. Therefore, the plaintiff urged the Court to restrain the 1st and 2nd respondents from holding the said meeting or calling any meeting of the TULF without his permission. Wijedasa Rajapaksha PC with Kapila Liyanagamage instructed by Dissanayaka Ameratunga Associates supported the application. |
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