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Sri Lanka's main Tamil party wants 'enhanced and meaningful' devolution of power under 13A

Sri Lanka's main Tamil party wants 'enhanced and meaningful' devolution of power under 13A

Colombo: The Tamil National Alliance (TNA), the largest Tamil political party in Sri Lanka, has called for "enhanced and meaningful" devolution of power as a result of the controversial 13th Amendment being fully implemented.

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Sri Lanka's minority Tamil population has long pushed for the government to honour the 13th Amendment's promise of devolved power.

Following the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord of 1987, the 13th Amendment (13A) was enacted. By temporarily merging the Northern and Eastern provinces, it established nine new provinces as devolved units.—Inputs from Agencies

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