The victory of President Mahinda Rajapaksa's party in the Sri Lankan parliamentary elections is a good development for Indian national interest, Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy said on Saturday.
In a press statement, Dr. Swamy said it was a mandate necessary to enable the President to take “bold steps” to amend the Constitution and provide devolution of powers to Tamil areas of the north and the east.
He called on the President not to “dissipate the national and international goodwill earned by defeating terrorism because of any undue delay in providing constitutional justice and equality to the Tamils of Sri Lanka.”
In another statement, Dr. Swamy called for a public enquiry under a Supreme Court judge to probe sources of funding for naxalites. It should also investigate the funding of candidates from Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh during the parliamentary polls last year.
