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Reviewing performance at general election | ITAK appoints election review committee

19 Aug 2020

By Sarah Hannan 
The Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) has appointed a committee to study the outcome of the election results of the 2020 general election, with the party losing popularity during this election. The committee will be appointed on 29 August when their working committee meets, The Morning learnt. When contacted, ITAK Leader Mavai Senthiraja noted: “We will be selecting four to five persons to appoint for this committee to study the setback that the party and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) faced during the recent election. From the date of appointing the committee, we will allow them a period of one week to submit the report to us, after which we will take a decision on the way forward for ITAK and TNA.” Speaking further, the former MP said: “Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) Founder P. Selva thought that he will be able to win the demands of the Tamil people through his party, while the deceased Veluppilai Prabakaran presumed that the freedom fight would manage to win the trust of the Tamil people. "Meanwhile, R. Sampanthan tried to win the votes of the Tamil people through diplomatic channels. All three failed. Now the Tamil people cannot even imagine who they want to support. The Tamil people gave their full support to all three who I mentioned earlier. The election results were the doing of politicians in the North, who pulled the strings," he said. He added that all Tamil politicians should now unite to find what the Tamil people want and must provide those solutions without blaming anyone. When the results were announced, the TNA contesting as ITAK under the House symbol got three out of seven seats in Jaffna. S. Shritharan (35,884), M.A. Sumanthiran (27,834), and D. Siddarthan (23,840) had been elected as MPs on the basis of their preference votes. Sashikala Raviraj was not elected although she came fourth with 23,098 votes. E. Saravanabhavan and Mavai Senathirajah came fifth and sixth with 20,392 and 20,358 votes, respectively.


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