Tamil National People's Front தமிழ் தேசியத்திற்கான மக்கள் முன்னணி ද්රවිඩ ජාතික ජනතා පෙරමුණ | |
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| President | Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam |
| Secretary-General | S. Kajendren |
| Vice President | R. E. Anandaraja Rajakon Hariharan Visvalingam Manivannan Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam P. Sithamparanathan |
| Founder | Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam |
| Founded | 28 February 2010 (2010-02-28) |
| Split from | Tamil National Alliance |
| Headquarters | 43, 3rd Cross Street,Jaffna, Sri Lanka |
| Ideology | Tamil nationalism Regionalism Secularism |
| Colors | Yellow |
| Parliament of Sri Lanka | 1 / 225 |
| Local Government | 101 / 8,793 |
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| www.tnpf.info | |
TheTamil National People's Front (TNPF) is aSri Lankan political alliance which represents theSri Lankan Tamil ethnic minority in the country. It was launched on 28 February 2010 as breakaway faction of theTamil National Alliance (TNA).[1] Its main constituent is theAll Ceylon Tamil Congress and it also includes former TNA Jaffna district MPsSelvarajah Kajendren andPathmini Sithamparanathan.[2]
It contests under the Ideology of "Two-Nations in One Country" meaning Sri Lankan State as the country comprising the Sinhala nation and the Tamil nation in a pluri-national society and supports Federalism as a model to achieve this goal. But diverges from the TNA in that the TNPF does not agree on the devolutionary path to federalism. It also opposes both the concept of Sri Lankan nation state and the concept of a Sinhala State.[3]
In the8 April 2010 parliamentary election in which theUnited People's Freedom Alliance led byPresident Rajapaksa retained power, theTamil National People's Front led byGajendrakumar Ponnambalam won 0.09% of the popular vote and no seats in theSri Lankan parliament.
Votes and seats won by TNPF by electoral district
| Electoral District | Votes | % | Seats | Turnout | TNPF MPs |
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| Jaffna | 6,362 | 4.28% | 0 | 23.33% | |
| Trincomalee | 1,182 | 0.85% | 0 | 62.20% | |
| Total | 7,544 | 0.09% | 0 | 61.26% | |
| Source:"Parliamentary General Election – 2010". Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. | |||||
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