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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hyaenidae" data-source="post: 18778429" data-attributes="member: 530392">There was a distraction on Friday morning. Vijayakala Maheswaran, UNP candidate and a former Deputy Minister, refused to hoist the Sri Lanka national flag saying she had “never done so.” This was when she turned up at the Hindu College playground where the Jaffna Premier League cricket tournament is now under way. Kathiravel Sebwal, who once contested on the SLFP ticket for the Northern Provincial Council, is the organiser of the tournament. He told the Sunday Times, ” I gave the first opportunity for Vijayakala Maheswaran to hoist the Sri Lanka national flag. She refused saying she had not done so before.” I later asked Hindu College Principal Iyampillai Thayanandarajah and he hoisted it. Vijayakala could not be contacted. Several calls to her mobile phone were answered by a female aide who said she was at different meetings and could not respond to telephone calls. This is notwithstanding her party’s unwavering commitment to a unitary Sri Lanka. Her refusal raises many questions including her allegiance to the unitary status of the country and how she would swear an oath if she is elected. It is clear she is also playing to the sentiments of the hard line elements to win votes.<a href="http://www.sundaytimes.lk/150802/columns/rumblings-in-jaffna-war-was-won-not-yet-the-hearts-and-minds-of-the-people-159150.html" target="_blank">http://www.sundaytimes.lk/150802/columns/rumblings-in-jaffna-war-was-won-not-yet-the-hearts-and-minds-of-the-people-159150.html</a></blockquote>

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