General Secretary of TMVP Thaileswara Raja says that he and several Provincial Councilors of the party will resign from the party and join the main constituent of the ruling alliance, Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). The breakaway is to take place with the dissolution of the Eastern Provincial Council and the call for the election. Elections for the Eastern Provincial Council were last held in April 2008 and the next elections are due in April 2013. Thaileswara Raja said that they could not comprehend the policies of the leader of the TMVP Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan. TMVP was the political party formed by paramilitary Karuna faction that broke away from the Tamil rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). In 2008 election, the party contested the Eastern Provincial Council Election as a coalition party of the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) and Chandrakanthan became the Chief Minister of the Eastern Provincial Council. The founder of the party, Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan, the former LTTE leader for the Eastern Province and the current government minister, left the TMVP in 2009 and joined the SLFP. Earlier Chandrakanthan said his party has decided to contest the upcoming provincial council elections in the East with the governing UPFA.
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