he US based LTTE activist Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran, in an emailed statement, said that the moves are underway to hold elections in April 2010 to form the Provisional Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (PTGTE). He said that elections provide the best opportunity for the Tamil Diaspora community to exercise their democratic rights.

We wish to take this opportunity to clarify our position on a few matters that have been raised in recent weeks. As expressed in the first press statement in June 2009, the task of forming a Provisional

Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam is a fundamentally democratic effort to unite all Tamil entities, he said.

Therefore, no one other than the directly elected members will make up the PTGTE, which in the first instance will perform the specific function of becoming a Constituent Assembly. The directly elected members of the PTGTE will ultimately decide on what kind of relationship PTGTE will have with existing and newly created national level bodies in carrying out its functions of governance. We are aware of current initiatives to create new national level organizations through an electoral process in some countries. We welcome all democratic initiatives. However at this time we neither support nor oppose these initiatives because, as stated earlier, to do so would be presumptuous and undemocratic on the part of the Formation Committee, Rudrakumaran further said in his statement.