Reveal KP’s antecedent, before his nomination on UPFA ticket – UNP

If the government was intending to field Kumaran Pathmanathan, alias KP, on the UPFA ticket, at the forthcoming Northern Provincial Council Election, it should, first of all, reveal the former LTTE leader’s involvement in terrorism as well as all other information pertaining to the recovery of LTTE assets, the UNP said yesterday.

Addressing a media briefing in Colombo, UNP MP Harin Fernando the UPFA’s decision to field KP was something to be expected as it had already made former LTTE leaders Vice Presidents of the SLFP and even given them deputy ministerial portfolios.

"We welcome the way that terrorists are becoming democrats, but they must be prosecuted for their former acts as they were directly involved in several massacres in the past," MP Fernando said, adding that complaints by some Buddhist monks from Andaulpotha against the former LTTE leader did not even get processed.

There were speculations that former LTTE heavyweight Kumaran Pathmanathan, LTTE Media Spokesman Velayutham Dayanidhi, alias Daya Master and LTTE Women’s Wing Leader Sivasubramaniam Sivahami, alias Thamilini, would contest the Northern Provincial Council election on the UPFA ticket.

The Badulla District MP said that the government was now going full steam ahead to amend the 13th amendment to the Constitution. "If the government had a real need to amend or scrap the 13th amendment, it should have done it just after the war ended in 2009," Fernando said, adding that at that time people welcomed anything proposed by the government.