 Due to its alleged role in anti-Tamil riots of July 1983, although the government supplied no evidence to support this allegation, it was banned and its leadership went underground.The group's activities intensified against the then government in the second half of 1987 in the wake of the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord to resolve the ethnic conflict.During 1987 a new group, the Deshapremi Janatha Viyaparaya (DJV), emerged.