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  2. Sri Lankan Tamils - Wikipedia

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    Tamil portal. v. t. e. Sri Lankan Tamils ( Tamil : இலங்கை தமிழர், ilankai tamiḻar or ஈழத் தமிழர், īḻat tamiḻar ), [21] also known as Ceylon Tamils or Eelam Tamils, [22] [23] are Tamils native to the South Asian island state of Sri Lanka. Today, they constitute a majority in the Northern ...

  3. Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam - Wikipedia

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    Transnational Government of Tamil Eelamநாடு கடந்த தமிழீழ அரசு. The Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam ( TGTE) is a transnational organisation among the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora which aims to establish Tamil Eelam, a secular and democratic socialist state which many Tamils aimed to create in the North ...

  4. Government of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    The Government of Sri Lanka ( GoSL) ( Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා රජය, romanized: Śrī Lankā Rajaya; Tamil: இலங்கை அரசாங்கம்) is a Semi-presidential republic determined by the Sri Lankan Constitution. It administers the island from both its commercial capital of Colombo and the administrative ...

  5. S. Shritharan - Wikipedia

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    School teacher. Website. www .shritharan .com. Shritharan Sivagnanam ( Tamil: சிவஞானம் சிறீதரன், romanized: Civañāṉam Ciṟītaraṉ; born 8 December 1968) is a Sri Lankan Tamil school teacher and politician. He is the Member of Parliament for the Jaffna District and leader of the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi ...

  6. Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka, [a] historically known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. It shares a maritime border with the Maldives in the southwest ...

  7. Tamil United Liberation Front - Wikipedia

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    On 4 May 1972, several Tamil political groups, including the Federal Party (ITAK), Ceylon Workers Congress, and All Ceylon Tamil Congress formed the Tamil United Front (TUF) under the joint leadership of S.J.V. Selvanayagam, S. Thondaman, and G.G. Ponnambalam. The TUF changed its name to Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) and adopted the ...

  8. Tamil People's National Alliance - Wikipedia

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    In the 2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election, in which the Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance, led by Mahinda Rajapaksa, retained power, the Tamil People's National Alliance, led by C. V. Vigneswaran, won 0.44% of the popular vote and 1 out of 225 seats in the Sri Lankan parliament. Votes and seats won by the TPNA by electoral district

  9. 2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 5 August 2020 to elect 225 members to Sri Lanka's 16th Parliament. [1] [2] [3] 16,263,885 people were eligible to vote in the election, 31.95% of whom were young voters. [4] [5] The incumbent Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance coalition claimed a landslide victory in the election, winning ...