Reacting to questions about rumblings within the ruling coalition over abrogating the India-sponsored thirteenth amendment (13A) of 1987, acting government spokesman and Minister of Petroleum Anura Yapa said, "The government treats the PSC as the real forum to discuss any change to the constitution."
"The issue needs broader consultation of all political parties," Yapa told reporters adding that there existed divergent views on the subject within the coalition.
The JHU wants to introduce a private members' bill in parliament which seeks to abrogate the 13A.
The move stems from fears that the main Tamil party, Tamil National Alliance would grab control of the northern provincial council in the elections slated for September.
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Both JHU and NFF have claimed that TNA upon winning the polls would declare independence and that it would only facilitate the creation of a separate Tamil homeland that the LTTE failed to achieve during the brutal three-decade-long Sri Lankan civil war.
But, the move announced in the midst of stalled bilateral talks with TNA, led the Tamil party to dub it as a delaying tactic.