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<p>The Tamil National People's Alliance over the weekend distributed leaflets in the Jaffna peninsula declaring that the Northern and Eastern Provinces should boycott the Presidential poll scheduled to be conducted in Sept/Oct this year.</p>
<p>The grouping said that the all elections should be boycotted until the country's unitary status was done away with to pave the way for a Federal structure.</p>
<p>Activists said it would be futile to exercise their franchise to all candidates were committed to protecting the unitary status of the state.</p>
<p>The grouping made its move in the wake of TNA MP M.A. Sumanthiran's recent declaration in Jaffna that the Northern electorate regretted the 2005 Presidential poll boycott that caused Ranil Wickremesinghe's defeat.</p><!-- /wp:html --></p><p>[Category: <a href="https://feed.lankaimage.com/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a>]</p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> </p>
<p>The Tamil National People's Alliance over the weekend distributed leaflets in the Jaffna peninsula declaring that the Northern and Eastern Provinces should boycott the Presidential poll scheduled to be conducted in Sept/Oct this year.</p>
<p>The grouping said that the all elections should be boycotted until the country's unitary status was done away with to pave the way for a Federal structure.</p>
<p>Activists said it would be futile to exercise their franchise to all candidates were committed to protecting the unitary status of the state.</p>
<p>The grouping made its move in the wake of TNA MP M.A. Sumanthiran's recent declaration in Jaffna that the Northern electorate regretted the 2005 Presidential poll boycott that caused Ranil Wickremesinghe's defeat.</p><!-- /wp:html --></p><p>[Category: <a href="https://feed.lankaimage.com/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a>]</p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> </p>