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Speech made in Parliament by Hon. M.A.Sumanthiran M.P. today (23rd November 2022)

Thank you Hon. Speaker for the time given to say a few words on the allocation to the Presidential secretariat, Supreme Court, Independent commissions and a long list of 25 institutions. Before I get to the subject matter, I wish to clarify what we did at the vote last evening, I did explain right at the end of my speech, nevertheless, time was insufficient so therefore I’d like to say that right through the debate on the 2nd reading, all members of the Tamil National Alliance criticised the budget. Every one of us for various reasons, I don’t need to repeat that. And ordinarily, we would have had to therefore vote against the budget at the second reading. However, we took a decision not to cast our votes against the budget at the 2nd reading, for one reason and that is because his Excellency the President has on numerous occasions in the last few days, the last 10 days, repeatedly said that he wants to resolve the Tamil National Question. And has invited the Tamil Parties to have discussions with him. We have publicly expressed our scepticism about this invitation, nevertheless when there is a hand that is stretched out from the President himself, we thought we must reciprocate in some way and therefore would not vote against the budget as a signal of our bona fides in this matter.

நேற்றைய தினம் இரண்டாம் வாசிப்பில் நாங்கள் வாக்கெடுப்பில் கலந்து கொள்ளாமல் விட்டதற்கான காரணம் பாதீட்டிலே இருந்த பல குறைபாடுகளை நாங்கள் சுட்டிக்காட்டியிருந்தோம், அதற்கு எதிராகத்தான் தமிழ் தேசிய கூட்டமைப்பின் நாடாளுமன்ற உறுப்பினர்கள் அனைவரும் உரையாற்றியும் இருந்தோம். சாதாரணமாக அப்படியான சந்தர்ப்பத்திலே அதற்கு எதிராக வாக்களித்திருக்க வேண்டும் ஆனால், அப்படி நாங்கள் செய்யாமல் விட்டதற்கான ஒரேயொரு காரணம் ஜனாதிபதி அவர்கள் தமிழ் கட்சிகளைத் தமிழ் தேசிய பிரச்சினையை தீர்ப்பதற்காக தன்னோடு கலந்துரையாடுமாறு கடந்த 10 நாட்களிலே பல தடவைகள் அழைத்திருக்கிறார். அந்த அழைப்பிலே எங்களுக்கு நம்பிக்கை குறைவாக இருந்தாலும் கூட, அப்படியான ஒரு அழைப்பு இருக்கின்றபோது, ஒரு நல்லெண்ண சமிக்ஞையாக நாங்களும் செயற்படவேண்டும் என்பதற்காக ரதிர்த்து வாக்களிக்காமல் விலகியிருந்தோம்.

As I came into the house there was a discussion and now that the President is also here I might say that in Sinhala

ඊයේ දිනේදී අපි අයවැය දෙවැනි කියවීමට එරෙහිව ජන්ද නොදුන්නාට කාරනාව දැන් මම පැහැදිලිකරලා දුන්නා. අපි මේ අයවැයට විරුද්දව තමයි කතාකලේ, දෙමළ ජාතික සන්දානයේ මන්ත්රවරුන් හැම දෙනාම එයට විරුද්දව කතා කළා අපි එකට විරුද්දව ජන්ද දෙන්න හිටියේ, එනමුත් ජනාධිපති තුමා දැන් මෑත කාලයේදී, දවස් දහයකට ඇතුල්ව කීපවතාවක් දෙමළ ජාතික ප්රශ්නයට විසඳීමක් හොයන්නට පුළුවන්, මම ආරාධනා කරනවා දෙමළ පක්ෂවලට ඇවිල්ල සාකච්චා කරන්ඩ කියලා, අපිට ආරාධනා කරපු නිසා අපි ඒ ආරාධනාව තියෙන වෙලාවේ විරුද්දව ජන්ද දෙන එක හොඳ නැ කියලා හිතලා අපි ජන්දෙන් වැලකිලා හිටියා.