COLOMBO, Dec 19: A political party representing the Tamil community of Indian origin in Sri Lanka’s plantation sector has agreed to forge a new ‘broader’ political front following talks with the LTTE leadership, party officials said on Monday.

The senior leaders of the Ceylon Workers’ Congress (CWC), a political party-cum-trade-union, last week travelled to the Tamil Tiger controlled Kilinochchi district in the north to hold talks with the Tiger leaders, party members said.

A senior CWC member, R. Yogarajan, said the objective of the visit was to apprise the LTTE leadership of its move to forge a new political alliance.

As a direct outcome of the meeting with the Tiger rebels, the party is expected to shortly start dialogue with the Tiger proxy party, the Tamil National Alliance, sources said.

The CWC, representing the Tamil estate plantation workers in the central hilly regions of the country, has so far not worked in alliance with the Tamil National Alliance which represents the Tamils of the north and the east.

Party sources say the new move by the CWC to broaden its horizons come in the wake of alleged attempts by the new government to split the party.