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Cracks appeared in the PA over moves by some of its members to form an alliance with the JVP to contest the remaining local government elections. The PA organiser for Kesbewa Chandana Kathriarachchi had called for PA-JVP joint front to challenge the UNP at the Kesbewa Pradeshiya Sabha elections. The PA is also set to join the JVP for a joint electoral battle with the UNP in Hali-Ela in the Badulla District where MP Nimal Siripala de Silva is the organiser.

Kathriarachchi had called for a PA-JVP joint front to pose a stronger challenge to the UNP which both parties accuse of trying to devide the country. The combined vote of the PA and JVP topped the UNP in Kesbewa at the December election.

However former Deputy Minister Shantha Premaratne who is spearheading the PA campaign in Mihintale and Tirappane was vehemently opposed to any marriage with the JVP and described those wanting one as "people without a backbone".

He said the PA should be capable to fighting its own battles without any outside assistance. He would have nothing to do with the JVP.

Kathriarachchi was in the vanguard exposing the bloody past of the JVP not many moons ago with an impressive poster exhibition in Colombo which he was set to take to the outstations too when the PA entered into a "parivase" with the JVP. 

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