Tamil National Alliance parliamentarians are ordered to be back in Sri Lanka and be present on 19 November in the parliament to vote against Mahinda Rajapakse’s budget 2008. Sources in Vanni said that urgent messages have been sent to almost 5 TNA members of parliament who are at present away from the country, to return back immediately and vote in the budget to bring down the Mahinda Rajapakse’s government by all means.

Sources revealed that LTTE leader Velupillai Prabakaran has personally instructed the political division of the outfit to dispatch urgent messages to the 5 TNA parliament members, who are at present staying in overseas, to return to Sri Lanka before Monday and vote against the budget and defeat the government.

Sources added that he has instructed to send this message that in case Mahinda Rajapakse’s government remains in power, there is likelihood that military will advance into Killinochchi and Mullaithivu shortly. To stop the military advance his only option is to defeat the government in the budget.

In case the budget 2008 is defeated, it is likely that the opposition leader Ranil Wickramasinghe might have the chance to win over in the elections and he might again implement the Cease Fire Agreement. This is expected to help the already militarily weakened LTTE to strengthen its hold in Vanni.

Courtesy - Asian Tribune