Political Commentator and top journalist, Dayan Jayatilake has emphasized that the sole desire of a section of the Tamil National Alliance was to rout President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the elections with the aim of resurrecting the LTTE. "This is the reason they  support the Opposition candidate" said Jayatilleke. at a  Round Table discussion telecast over Prime TV.

The TNA are yet to be critical of the LTTE, he noted. "They know that during the war it was virtually a proxy for the LTTE", he recalled. He said he was yet to hear the TNA say that any solution to the Tamil question in Sri Lanka has to be within Sri Lanka as one country.

The LTTE has been defeated on the soil of this island. But, he said that they saw in Geneva 200,000 people demonstrating under the LTTE banner, others demonstrated in Toronto. The global tiger network is very much intact. And they want to win politically what they had lost militarily, Jayatilleke stressed.

The respected newspaper “The Independent London” ran a story by a British journalist and its title was “Tigers throw weight behind General who crushed them”. This is not what the Government of Sri Lanka or a Sinhala Organisation or Douglas Devananda said. It has been stated by the Independent UK newspaper. Jayatilleke added that the tigers want President Rajapaksa defeated and the only way to do it was for the Opposition candidate to win.