India Should Help Rajapaksa Solve Tamil Problem: EROS Leader

A top leader of a Sri Lankan Tamil political party has said President Mahinda Rajapaksa is eager to solve the long-standing ethnic problem in Sri Lanka and has appealed to India to help him in the task.

'We have no doubt that Rajapaksa wants to solve the problem. His sincerity is evident in his practical approach to the question,' said Rajanathan Prabaharan, general secretary of the Eelavar Democratic Front (EDF), the political wing of the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS), a Sri Lankan Tamil militant group that had given up arms to join the democratic mainstream.

'Instead of thrusting his ideas on the country, Rajapaksa formed an all-party committee to go into the question of power devolution. And what the committee had suggested - the full implementation of the existing provisions of the constitution relating to devolution of power - is the most practical yet,' Prabaharan told IANS over the phone from Batticaloa, where he is a candidate for the post of town mayor in the local body elections March 10.

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