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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 11754194" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/SL_Muslim.png/150px-SL_Muslim.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />An ally of Sri Lanka's governing United  People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA), the Sri Lanka Muslin Congress (SLMC)  has opposed the government's decision not to allocate land and police  powers to the provinces.   SLMC Deputy Secretary Nizam Kariyappar has said the Tamil National  Alliance (TNA) has promised to invite the SLMC for the next round of  talks with the government.   He has observed that the Tamil speaking people in the North and  East Provinces were hopeful of power being devolved to the provinces as  promised by President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the All Party Representative  meeting in 2006.   The SLMC's High Command is to meet shortly to decide on its official stance on the matter.   Kariyappar has noted that the party would make its stance known to  the government at the next round of talks with the TNA that is to be  attended by the SLMC.   The next round of talks between the government and TNA are scheduled for January 17th.   Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has recently told a media  meeting that the government will not grant land and police powers to  provincial councils as sought by the TNA in accordance with the 13th  Amendment to the Constitution.   Deputy Minister Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan, who was a former  Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader, has said that devolution  of police powers to the provinces would cause security issues to the  government and in the event police powers were devolved, maintaining law  and order and rule of law in some provincial councils would be  impossibility. CP</blockquote>

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