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The real loser at Saturday`s election was Velupillai Prabhakaran. Easterners have routed his separatist project by electing a group of representatives independent of the LTTE to run their province which is the be-all and end-all of Eelam.
The UNP-SLMC combine turned that election into a referendum on the North-East merger and the politico-military strategy of the government. The government which had cleared the East of the LTTE and effected the de-merger secured about 52 per cent of the total number of valid votes, thus winning that `referendum`. The SLMC let the cat of South-Eastern Council out of the bag and that, too, was rejected lock stock and barrel by the people.
The election turned out to be a contest between the government and a collective of other powerful players the UNP, the SLMC and the LTTE/TNA combine. The LTTE, through its proxy alliance, ordered the Easterners to defeat the government on the eve of the election. But, even the Eastern Tamils whom he claims to represent defied that order. In fact, they overwhelmingly supported the UPFA-TMVP coalition, which obtained more than 58 per cent of the total number of valid votes in Batticaloa with a heavy Tamil presence.
The JVP which sought to eat into the UPFA vote bank had a pratfall. It got only one seat, which was more an accident under the PR system than an achievement as such
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