Mano Ganesan Calls for Resumption of new Constitutional Process in Response to UK Sanctions

A fitting response to the recent UK sanctions is recommencing the promised constitutional process, MP and Tamil Progressive Alliance leader Mano Ganesan says.

The MP called upon the government to recommence the new constitutional process and achieve national reconciliation. “That would be the logical reply to UK sanctions,” he added.

The recent imposition of sanctions by the UK Government on four Sri Lankans for alleged human rights violations during the civil war has sparked considerable debate.

The MP’s reaction follows the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry’s response to the sanctions.

Mano Ganesan said Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath, in his “neither here, nor there” response, had described the UK sanctions as “complicating the national reconciliation process” in Sri Lanka.

Mano Ganesan commented on the X platform: “The British foreign secretary has stood by his election promise to his voters. That’s the sanction.

Addressing Foreign Minister Herath, Mano Ganesan added on X:

“But Mr. Minister, where is your national reconciliation process?

“You have indefinitely postponed the commitment made during your election campaign to recommence the new constitutional process from the point where it was suspended in 2017.”

Mano Ganesan pointed out that President Anura Kumara Disanayake was part of the “subject committee with me and fellow party leaders Rauff Hakeem, Rishad Bathiudeen, and M. A. Sumanthiran.”

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