Solution under President’s aegis – Minister Devananda

Lakshmi DE SILVA

The Tamil people of the country will soon have a honourable political solution for their problems under the leadership of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Traditional Industries and Small Enterprise Development Minister Douglas Devananda said addressing the centenary function of the Kokuvil Hindu College recently.

The Minister addressing the students said there were many opportunities in the past to find a solution to the problem like the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord of 1987 but one Tamil political leader of the time had not made use of the opportunity and pushed the Tamil people back to the fire. But now President Rajapaksa is making efforts to arrive at a solution, Media Secretary to the Minister Nelson Edirisinghe told Daily News yesterday. The Tamil people should be grateful to President Rajapaksa for bringing democracy back to them when they were on the brink of destruction at the hands of a fascist dictatorship. He is also working to bring back economic development to the Tamil people, he said.

Jaffna Mayor Yogeswary Pathkunaraja was also present at the function.