TNA was Born in 2001 Due to Elections Shock of 2000

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) with 10 seats in Parliament is currently facing an internal crisis. 

The premier political configuration of the Sri Lankan Tamils in the Northern and Eastern Provinces is being plagued by intra-party rivalry within its constituent parties. The Ilankai Thamil Arasuk Katchi (ITAK), the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO) and the People’s Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam(PLOTE) are the three constituent parties of the TNA. Of these, the ITAK has six MPs. TELO has three and PLOTE one. 

With the prospects of local authority elections looming large on the political horizon, the TNA’s chief constituent - the ITAK- wanted all three parties to file separate candidate lists and contest alone instead of filing a joint list as in the past. Thereafter all three could jointly form administrations in the councils where they had a majority. 
The ITAK opined that this would help maximise representation for the TNA in the 60% ward-40% PR-based electoral system of Local Government elections

The TELO and PLOTE rejected this. Both parties then teamed up with four other smaller parties and formed an alliance under the name of Democratic Tamil National Alliance (DTNA) to contest LG polls with electoral deposits being paid by both sides it appears that both the three TNA constituents would be battling from opposite camps if and when elections are held.

Truth, they say, is the first casualty in times of war. Truth becomes a casualty in an “electoral war” environment as well. 

Several personalities within and outside the TNA folds are propagating myths and fallacies about the evolution of the TNA in a bid to blame the other side. This fakery is being relayed wittingly or unwittingly by some ill-informed sections of the Tamil media as well. 

What is happening now is not a re-interpretation of history but a total distortion of historical facts.