Former LTTE members of Karuna and Pillayan join Sri Lanka Army

Members of the party formed by the Former Eastern LTTE commander and current Sri Lankan government Minister Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna and Eastern Province Chief Minister S. Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan, have applied for job opportunities in the Sri Lanka Army.

Minister Muralitharan said that so far 540 members of his faction have applied and 140 of them have already been recruited by the Army for the active force. He said that the remaining applicants were being checked by the Army.

Chief Minister Chandrakanthan said that some 100 of his members have also applied for the Army and 40 of them had been recruited so far.

Both factions claim that they don’t have any military wings but only having political wings.