Mangalan Master is the nom de guerre of a candidate for the TMVP contesting Polonnaruwa District for the United People's Freedom Alliance in Sri Lanka.1 He is a former LTTE cadre, third in line for TMVP leadership after defecting to the party of Colonel Karuna2 and a staunch Karuna partisan during intra-TMVP feuds.3 The LTTE made an attempt on his life with claymore bombs in 2005.4
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- "Mangalan Master – a TMVP candidate in the election fray", Asian Tribune, July 11, 2008
- Kamalendran, Chris (July 6, 2008), "Pillayan ready to make way for Karuna", The Sunday Times
- Pillayan gives ‘final warning’ to Karuna Daily Mirror.lk - May 28, 2007
- No Karuna camp in govt. area -SLA BBC News - March 20, 2005