A new Tamil political alliance is set to emerge in Sri Lanka ahead of the Local Government elections after coalition partners of the TNA met yesterday and decided to contest the upcoming Local Government polls separately.

Selvam Adaikalanathan, leader of the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO) said the party will form an alliance with C. V. Vigneswaran’s Tamil People’s National Alliance (TPNA). Vigneswaran, the former Chief Minister of the Northern Province and current MP is expected to be named as leader of the new alliance.

Adaikalanathan confirmed that another constituent of the TNA, the People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) led by D. Siddarthan will also join the new alliance. In addition to this former TNA coalition partner, Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) led by Suresh Premachandran is also expected to follow suit.

This will leave the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) to contest the polls separately and alone.