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Parliament: 2001 - 2004 Government The President of the Republic, directly elected for a 6-year term, is chief of state, head of government, and commander in chief of the armed forces. ... A political party is a political organization subscribing to a certain ideology or formed around very special issues with the aim to participate in power, usually by participating in elections. ... Politics of Sri Lanka Categories: Election related stubs | Elections in Sri Lanka ... Legislative elections were held in Sri Lanka on December 6, 2001. ... Legislative elections were held in Sri Lanka on 2 April 2004. ...

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All Ceylon Tamil Congress (in Tamil: அகில இலங்கைத் தமிழ்க் காங்கிரஸ்), the oldest Tamil political party in Sri Lanka. ACTC was founed in 1944 by G.G. Ponnambalam. Due to the cooperation of ACTC with United National Party a group led by S.J.V. Chelvanayakam broke away in 1949 forming the Federal Party. Image File history File links ACTC flag. ... Image File history File links ACTC flag. ... Image File history File links ACTC election symbol. ... Image File history File links ACTC election symbol. ... Tamil may refer to: The Tamil language, which is one of the Dravidian languages spoken in the Indian subcontinent. ... Tamil girls in Tiruvannamalai The Tamil people are an ethnic group from South Asia with a recorded history going back almost two millennia. ... A political party is a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The United National Party (UNP, Sinhalese: Ekshat Jathika Pakshaya, Tamil: ஐக்கிய தேசியக் கட்சி) is a political party in Sri Lanka. ... 1949 - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...


ACTC was largely discredited when their ally UNP moved away from bilingual and bicommunal policies towards a pro-Sinhala stance. Thus FP emerged as the major Tamil party in 1956. Sinhala (or Sinhalese) is the language spoken by the Sinhalese, the majority of the people living in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon). ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


In 1972 ACTC and FP formed the Tamil United Front, which later evolved into the Tamil United Liberation Front. 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... TULF Election Symbol The Tamil United Liberation Front (in Sinhala: Tamil Vimuktasi Peramuna) is a political group in Sri Lanka, which seeks autonomy or independence for the Tamil-populated areas of Sri Lanka, which they call Tamil Eelam. ...


Ahead of the 2001 elections, ACTC joined the LTTE-backed Tamil National Alliance. In the 2004 elections TNA contested as Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi and won 6.9 % of the popular vote and 22 out of 225 seats. 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... LTTE is an acronym or initialism for: Letter to the Editor Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Formed in November of 2001 in preparation for the December election, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) is an extreme nationalistic grouping of parties consisting of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF), the All Ceylon Tamil Congress (ACTC), the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO) and the Eelam Peoples Revolutionary Liberation... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...



In Tamil ACTC is called அகில இலங்கைத் தமிழ்க் காங்கிரஸ். Tamil may refer to: The Tamil language, which is one of the Dravidian languages spoken in the Indian subcontinent. ...


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All Ceylon Tamil Congress (in Tamil: அகில இலங்கைத் தமிழ்க் காங்கிரஸ்), is the oldest Tamil political party in Sri Lanka.
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