After being invited to negotiations by President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lanka's minority Tamil parties held an internal meeting and decided to present a three-point plan, including their drive for federalism, as reported by the Press Trust of India (PTI).

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Addressing a public gathering at Nochchiyagama in the north-central province on Sunday, Rajapaksa, now the main opposition leader, said the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) could make political capital out of its support to the government.

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The Tamil National Alliance (TNA), a political alliance in Sri Lanka that represents the country`s Tamil minority, has decided to back the no-confidence motion brought by the United National Party against newly sworn-in Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa.

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Sri Lanka's main Tamil party on Sunday urged the president to reconvene parliament and end a worsening political crisis, as the minority ethnic community emerge as kingmakers in the power struggle.

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'The solution to the ethnic problem is to merge the northern and eastern province' said northern province chief minister CV Wignewswaran

Minority Tamils in Sri Lanka need a federal system of governance