New Constitution, a fundamental necessity, Sinhala majority should accept it – Sumanthiran

All the problems of the Tamil People would not be solved by a new Constitution, but a new Constitution was a fundamental necessity. Without that, no issue could be addressed, said TNA spokesman M. A. Sumanthiran speaking in Sinhala, recently, an an event in Galle on Constitutional Reform.

He further added that in a country with a permanent majority it is important to share powers of governance in such a way that all the people have equal citizenship rights. Sri Lanka’s Sinhala majority must themselves acknowledge injustice of simple majoritarian rule and clamour for reform and justice for other peoples. There has been a series of meetings in the south on constitutional reforms. This was the seventh meeting.