The leader of ITAK parliamentarian Mavai Senathirajah on Monday submitted the affidavit to the apex court when six petitions filed by representatives of Sinhala majority nationalist organizations were taken for hearing.
The affidavit further stated that the TNA and its leaders has consistently expressed publicly on the ITAK's position pertaining to a federal solution within a united Sri Lanka at several occasions.
A tri-member bench comprising Chief Justice Mohan Peiris and Justices Rohini Marasinghe and Chandra Ekanayake took up the petitions for hearing.
The six petitions filed in the apex court alleged that the political objective of the TNA is to form a separate government in Sri Lanka.
The petitioners, Galage Don Punyawardana, Gunadasa Amarasekera, U. Abeykoon, Ven. Bengamuwe Nalaka Thera, U.K. Anura and Ravi Kumar alleged that the main Tamil party campaigned for a separate state in the North and East during the Northern Provincial Council elections held in September 2013.
The petition claimed that the ITAK and TNA distributed election manifestos among voters in the North indicating that they are planning to form a separate state in Sri Lanka.
Petitioner has further cited in the petition that the manifesto is in line with the hidden agenda of the defeated Tamil terrorist organization LTTE.
In its election manifesto, the TNA, once considered as a proxy for the terrorist group LTTE during the war, has called for establishing power sharing arrangements in a unit of a merged Northern and Eastern Provinces based on a Federal structure.
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