Sri Lanka’s pro-LTTE political party, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has sought federal solution based on shared sovereignty while at the same time reiterating the right to self-determination of Tamils. In its manifesto for the April 8 general election the TNA has once again demanded re-meger of northern and eastern provinces. North and east were merged temporarily after the 1987 Indo-Lanka Accord. However, the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in October 2006 in a judgment nullified it on technical grounds. Since its inception in 2001, the TNA has been seen as a political platform of the LTTE and fought the 2004 parliamentary election with the blessings of its leader Velupillai Prabakaran. The alliance has 22 members in the dissolved 225-seat Parliament. In the post-Prabakaran Lanka TNA is a divided entity with some of its members shifting loyalty to the ruling UPFA combine. The Tamil National alliance, which supported Sarath Fonseka in the recently concluded presidential election is contesting the parliamentary election on its own. In its manifesto TNA has emphasised that power sharing arrangements must be established in a unit of merged Northern and Eastern Provinces based on a Federal structure, in a manner acceptable to the Tamil Speaking Muslim people as well . As per the document, devolution of powers should be over land, law and order, socio-economic development including health and education, resources and fiscal powers Apart from asking resettlement, housing and livelihood programs for the nearly 300,000 Tamil civilians displaced in the last stages of the civil war ,they have also demanded direct foreign investment in the North and East which will facilitate in establishing new industries and other employment opportunities being created for the youth The alliance also asked the government to permit the return of nearly one million Tamils who fled to Europe and India as refugees over the years. It further wants the government to demilitarize former rebel-held areas and dismantle high security zones where troops occupy thousands of acres (hectares) of private land and houses.AIR Colombo correspondent reports that since its inception in 2001, the TNA has been seen as a political platform of the LTTE and fought the 2004 parliamentary election with the blessings of its leader Prabakaran. The alliance has 22 members in the dissolved 225-seat Parliament. In the post-Prabakaran Lanka TNA is a divided entity with some of its members shifting loyalty to the ruling UPFA combine. The Tamil National alliance, which supported Sarath Fonseka in the recently concluded presidential election is contesting the parliamentary election on its own. In its manifesto TNA, while retaining its demand for self determination has emphasised that power sharing arrangements must be established in a unit of merged Northern and Eastern Provinces based on a Federal structure, in a manner acceptable to the Tamil Speaking Muslim people as well. As per the document, devolution of powers should be over land, law and order, socio-economic development including health and education, resources and fiscal powers The alliance also asked the government to permit the return of nearly one million Tamils who fled to Europe and India as refugees over the years. It further wants the government to demilitarize former rebel-held areas and dismantle high security zones where troops occupy thousands of acres of private land and houses.