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Some Tamil parties field common candidate
By Dinasena Ratugamage
An alliance of Tamil political parties has announced its decision to nominate former MP P. Ariyanethran as their common candidate for the upcoming Presidential Election.Representatives of several Tamil parties were presented with three nominees and out of them Ariyanethran was chosen.
On 22 July several Tamil political parties and a group of civil society agreed to field a common candidate for the 21 September presidential election.
Those who back Ariyanethran include C. V. Vigneswaran of the Tamil People’s Alliance, Selvam Adaikkalanathan of the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO), D. Siddharthan of the People’s Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE), Srikantha of the Tamil National Party, and Suresh Premachandran of the Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF).
Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) and Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam’s Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF) are not among those backing Ariyanethran.
The ITAK has said it believed that nominating a common Tamil presidential candidate was a bad idea and one destined to fail, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP, M.A. Sumanthiran said in a recent televised interview.In response, Vigneswaran said the 21 September presidential election was a great opportunity to show the strength of the Tamils.
The National Peoples Power [NPP] secured 15 seats to win the 27 member Badulla Municipal Council. The Samagi Jana Balawegaya were second securing six seats.
The Samagi Jana Balawegaya [SJB] secured 11 seats while the National Peoples Power [NPP] secured 10 seats in the 29 member Gampola Urban Council.
The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress secured seven seats in the 17 member Eravur Urban Council while the United National Party [UNP] were second securing four seats.
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