UNP AND LTTE WORRIED THAT THEY CANNOT STUFF BALLOT BOXES BECAUSE OF KARUNA IN THE EAST

United National Front sources said that they are highly worried that Velupillai Prabhakaran would not be able to deliver the necessary number of votes from the Eastern Province for the victory of Ranil Wickremesinghe at the forthcoming Presidential elections due to the opposition from Karuna.

The pro-UNF Daily Mirror said Karuna would soon distribute leaflets in Batticaloa requesting people not to vote for Ranil Wickremesinghe.

In the past parliamentary elections the LTTE openly violated election laws and stuffed ballot boxes and openly practiced impersonations by using small children to vote to elect their proxy party , Tamil National Alliance members to the parliament.

They were expected to use the same methods at the forthcoming Presidential elections to bring victory to their allegedly favorite Ranil Wickremesinghe to power.

In the internecine warfare between Prabhakaran faction and Karuna faction one faction has been opposing the other faction in all their military and political activities. Karuna faction is therefore expected to oppose Ranil Wickremesinghe candidature at the Presidential elections since UNF’s alleged secret pact with the LTTE.

Although the LTTE publicly has declared that they would help neither candidates UNF political opponent Janatha Vimukthi Permuna (JVP) has alleged that there is a secret pact between Ranil and Prabhakaran to obtain Tamil votes.

JVP leader Somawansa Amerasinghe in a exclusive interview with this correspondent said that it was the reason why Ranil Wickremesinghe refused to condemn the LTTE for the assassinations of Former Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar and the two principals of Jaffna schools who refused to let LTTE recruit child soldiers . Somawansa also said due to the same reason Ranil also refused to praise the European Union for its ban of the terrorist outfit.