No agreement with TNA on re-merging North, East or any other issues – Hakeem
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) leader Rauff Hakeem MP yesterday denied the recent news report in a Sinhala language weekly newspaper saying that Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R. Sampanthan had entered into an agreement with UNA common candidate General Sarath Fonseka on re-merging the North and East and other matters. He said that he was himself present at the discussions between the UNA and the TNA and he would like to assert as a responsible political leader that no agreement whatsoever was entered into either on unifying the North and East or any other matter.
Hakeem in a statement issued by his media consultant said this at the election propaganda meeting at Matale in support of the UNP Presidential candidate General Sarath Fonseka. UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, Presidential candidate Gen. Fonseka and party stalwarts attended the meetings.
The statement added: “Perceiving certain defeat at the January 26 Presidential Poll, the Government is now trying to induce communal sentiments of the majority community by getting unfounded and false reports published in newspapers and also carrying out a defamation and mud slinging campaign against General Sarath Fonseka,” Hakeem said.
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