{"id":191819,"date":"2018-07-04T11:09:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T05:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=191819"},"modified":"2018-07-04T13:41:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T08:11:00","slug":"sampanthan-laments-lack-of-political-will-to-enact-new-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sampanthan-laments-lack-of-political-will-to-enact-new-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Sampanthan Laments Lack Of Political Will To Enact New Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leader of the Opposition and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=R+Sampanthan\">R Sampanthan<\/a> told the United Nation\u2019s Resident Coordinator Terrence D Jones yesterday that despite a lot of work done regarding a new constitution since 1998, political will and courage is lacking \u2018to take it further\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Sampanthan had highlighted the need to adopt a new constitution \u2018to ensure the non-recurrence of the past\u2019 and had flagged key concerns of Tamil people when Jones was making a courtesy call on him in Parliament according to a media statement released by the TNA.<\/p>\n<p>In a veiled reference to State Minister Vijayakala Maheswaran of the United National Party (UNP) bing nostalgic about the LTTE and calling for its resurrection, Sampanthan said \u2018when the government overreacts to the extremists its only becomes an impediment to achieving reconciliation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He also complained over the slow pace in which lands occupied by the military are being released and insisted that relevant decisions should be made by the Government and not the security forces.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_191821\" style=\"width: 605px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/TNA-R-Sampanthan-told-the-United-Nation\u2019s-Resident-Coordinator-Terrence-D-Jones-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191821\" class=\"size-full wp-image-191821\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/TNA-R-Sampanthan-told-the-United-Nation\u2019s-Resident-Coordinator-Terrence-D-Jones-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/TNA-R-Sampanthan-told-the-United-Nation\u2019s-Resident-Coordinator-Terrence-D-Jones-.jpg 595w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/TNA-R-Sampanthan-told-the-United-Nation\u2019s-Resident-Coordinator-Terrence-D-Jones--300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-191821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">R Sampanthan with the United Nation\u2019s Resident Coordinator Terrence D Jones<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":191821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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