<span style="color: #222222;">In Sri Lanka, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has said the incumbent government is damaging the national reconciliation process by stipulating that national anthem be sung only in Sinhala and not in Tamil.<br />'' <br />'' TNA spokesman M.A. Sumanthiran told media the government's decision to sing the national anthem only in Sinhala at the upcoming National day celebration indicates the direction in which the government is moving to create a singular, majoritarian rule. The Tamil MP asserted if they are not to sing the national anthem in Tamil, it indicates that the government is telling the Tamils not to sing the national anthem at all.<br />'' <br />''<br />''His comments came as new government under President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has changed the tradition of past few years of singing national anthem both in Sinhala and Tamil. Mr. Sumanthiran said that when a new government came into office in 2015, they started moving in the direction of national reconciliation but claimed the trajectory has been turned around and the current government is doing everything to mar the process. </span><br />