The Northern Provincial Council rejected an invitiation to attend a Special District Development meeting, to be chaired by President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Monday, stating that it would be "inappropriate for us to attend the 13th October meeting as well as other politically motivated meetings in the Northern Province, particularly when in reality the NPC and the Tamil speaking peoples are continuing to be marginalised".
"The Northern Provincial Council (NPC) was neither consulted nor informed of the necessity or agenda of this curious meeting that purports to deal with issues addressed in 2012 after a lapse of two years," the Chief Minister of the NPC, C. W. Wigneswaran wrote in a letter, addressed to the President.
"The NPC, which was constituted after the Provincial Council elections in 2013, where the People of the Northern Province overwhelmingly rejected the existing policy of the Government of the Northern Province and granted an unprecedented 30 out of 38 seats to the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), is puzzled and perturbed as to why Your Excellency is picking up the strings left in 2012 suddenly in October 2014, overlooking the matters discussed at the DCC meetings that had the participation of the People's direct representatives."
