Arumugam Kandaiah Premachandran, commonly known as Suresh Premachandran, is a Sri Lankan Tamil militant

Militant

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 turned politician

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 and current leader of the Suresh Wing of the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front

Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front

The Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front is a Sri Lankan political party and a former militant separatist group.-Militant separatists:The EPRLF was formed in 1980 by K...

 (EPRLF), a member of the Tamil National Alliance

Tamil National Alliance

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 (TNA). He is also the current president of the Tamil National Alliance

Tamil National Alliance

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Suresh represented the Jaffna

Jaffna Electoral District

Jaffna Electoral District is one of the 22 multi-member electoral districts of Sri Lanka created by the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. The district covers the administrative districts of Jaffna and Kilinochchi in the Northern province...

 multi-member electoral district

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 for the EPRLF in the Sri Lankan Parliament between February 1989

Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 1989

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 and August 1994.

Suresh returned to Parliament in April 2004

Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 2004

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, this time representing Jaffna

Jaffna Electoral District

Jaffna Electoral District is one of the 22 multi-member electoral districts of Sri Lanka created by the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. The district covers the administrative districts of Jaffna and Kilinochchi in the Northern province...

for the TNA.