A group of rehabilitated LTTE combatants will contest the August 17th General Elections as an independent group for the Jaffna District.

Initially they had sought nomination from the Tamil National Alliance(TNA). However, the TNA leadership had declined to give them nomination mainly on account of their violent past.

Consequently they had decided to participate in the elections as an independent group. Tamil journalist cum politician S. Vidyatharan who heads this list of candidates said he did not field any candidates to contest other districts in the North and the East due to their multi-ethnic character.(Kelum Bandara)