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Tamils fight over two Sinhala war heroes

January 03 2010 – Lakbimanews

The main political formation of Tamil political parties, the Tamil National Alliance, would announce its stance on the presidential election tomorrow, but, if current developments are any indicator, the decision would hardly be a consensus. Cracks are wide open in the once cohesive TNA: one constituent party, the All Ceylon Tamil Congress (ACTC) has broken ranks with the rest to announce a unilateral boycott of the election. An earlier proposition by the TNA’s influential troika, party leader Rajavarothiam Sampanthan, Mavai Senathiraja and Suresh Premachandran to support the common opposition candidate Gen Sarath Fonseka was shot down at a party’s parliamentry group meeting. New Delhi, which had been brokering a grand bargain of a political solution in exchange of TNA support to either of the main candidates has been displeased with TNA loner, Sivajilingam’s candidature, and denied him entry into India.

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