Crusaders for Democracy is a Tamil political party led byNadesapillai Vithyatharan a Journalist who was the Editor of theUthayan and consists of former LTTE cadres. It was started the near theNallur Kandaswamy temple whereThileepan fasted to death in a hunger strike against theIPKF.The party was started after theTamil National Alliance refused to nominate them for political reasons. However, Crusaders for Democracy will contest as an independent group but will not campaign against theTamil National Alliance and will contest only fromJaffna as it did not want to split Tamil votes in other areas.[1][2][3][4][5][6]