COLOMBO: In an obvious blow to LTTE renegade leader Karuna Amman's much hyped political future, his political arm Tamileela Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP) will not be allowed to contest the forthcoming Eastern Province election scheduled to be held before the end of this year, reports said Sunday. The TMVP which has some 20 political offices in the Eastern Province and one in Colombo has not been recognised as a political party by the Commissioner of Elections Dayananda Dissanayake as of July 10, 2007.
The TMVP (also known in English as Tamileela People's Liberation Tigers) initially submitted their application to the Department of Elections on October 12, 2004 to be a registered and a recognised political party in Sri Lanka.
"However, it's been nearly three years since the application was handed over to the department by TMVP Secretary General G. R. Gnanarajah, but the department is yet to recognize this party," highly placed sources said. The latest list updated by the Elections Secretariat as of July 10, consists of 53 recognised political parties with each of these parties being granted a unique symbol, but the list does not include the TMVP.
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