Some former members of the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO) headed by N Srikantha, have formed a new anti-Sonia Gandhi 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.
TNLA leader Sivajilingam had contested for the Sri Lankan Presidency in January on a virulently anti-India 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.
New Tamil alliance in Sri Lanka says TNA betrayed Tamils
Former Jaffna parliamentarian and independent presidential candidate M.K. Sivajilingam says the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) acted according to the wishes of the terrorist group LTTE and did not genuinely represent the aspirations of the Tamil people.
At a press conference held in Colombo on Monday to announce the creation of a breakaway faction of the TNA named Tamil National Liberation Alliance (TNLA) to contest the upcoming parliamentary elections, its co-founder, Sivajilingam accused the TNA of betraying the Tamils.
Sivajilingam and another TNA MP from Jaffna N. Sri Kantha declared yesterday that they have formed the new alliance to contest the general election in all districts in the Northern and Eastern Provinces under the Leftist Liberation Front of Dr. Wickramabahu Karunaratna.
The TNLA has been created in order to fulfill the objectives of the Tamil People, he said.
Dr. Wickramabahu Karunaratna described their alliance with the Tamil National Liberation Alliance as an instance of a union of the North and the South.
Sivajilingam said the TNA was controlled by three powerful former MPs R. Sampanthan, Suresh Premachandran and M. Senadirajah who acted according to LTTE wishes.
He accused the group including Sampanthan of deceiving other party members by lending support to General Sarath Fonseka at the presidential elections.
Sivajilingam said the TNA leadership is solely responsible for the death of thousands of Tamils brutally tortured and executed by the LTTE.
The TNA, which had 22 seats in the dissolved parliament, recently denied nominations to 9 of its members to contest the polls under the alliance. The TNA had also left out Sri Kantha and Sivajilingam from its nomination list.
The other members who were denied nominations include Jaffna district member Pathmini Sithamparanathan, are S. Kajendran, S.Jeyanandamurthy, Sivanathan Kishor, T. Kanagasabai and S. Sathasivam.
Kilde: colombopage.com
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