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Tamil National Liberation Alliance launched
COLOMBO: Some former members of the Tamil Eelam
Liberation Organisation (TELO) headed by N
Srikantha, have formed a new Tamil party called
Tamil National Liberation Alliance (TNLA) to
contest the April 8 Sri Lankan parliamentary
elections. Srikantha and the defeated
Presidential candidate, K Sivajilingam, told the
media here on Monday, that they left the Tamil
National Alliance (TNA) because the party had
become a puppet of the Indian National Congress
led by Sonia Gandhi. The TNA, they charged, had
deliberately failed to bring about a ceasefire
in the final stages of the war against the LTTE.
They had willfully ignored the help offered by
the Tamil Nadu government and the Indian
opposition parties to stop the war. The TNLA
proposes to fight the forthcoming parliamentary
elections in Sri Lanka in alliance with the
ultra left and anti-India Left Liberation Front
led by Dr Wickramabahu Karunaratne, yet another
defeated Presidential candidate.
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TNLA leader Sivajilingam had contested for the Sri
Lankan Presidency in January on a virulently anti-Sonia
and anti- Rajapaksa platform. He did not make any pro-LTTE
statements, but his stand was the same as that of the
LTTE. Being a relative of LTTE Supremo Velupillai
Prabhakaran, Sivajilingam took charge of the body of
Prabhakaran’s father, Thiruvengadam Velupillai at an
army camp in Panagoda near Colombo and conducted the
funeral at his hometown of Valvettithurai.
