The All Ceylon Muslim Congress is a Sri Lankan

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

 political party representing the Muslim community

Islam in Sri Lanka

Islam in Sri Lanka is practiced by a group of minorities who make up approximately 10% of the population.on the 2001 census of GOSL shows there are 1,711,000 Muslims The Muslim community is divided into three main ethnic groups: the Sri Lankan Moors, the Indian Muslims, and the Malays, each with...

 of Sri Lanka. It was formed in 2008 by four MPs elected to parliament from the opposition Sri Lanka Muslim Congress

Sri Lanka Muslim Congress

The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress is a political party in Sri Lanka. The party was formed at a meeting held at Kattankudy in 1981 by a small study group of local Eastern Province political leaders....

 who had left their party and joined the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance

United People's Freedom Alliance

The United People's Freedom Alliance is a political alliance in Sri Lanka. The current leader of the United People's Freedom Alliance is Mahinda Rajapaksa and Susil Premajayantha is the general secretary of UPFA.The alliance was formed by:...

 (UPFA) in 2004.

In the presidential election of January 2010

Sri Lankan presidential election, 2010

The Sri Lankan presidential election of 2010 was the sixth presidential election of Sri Lanka. The election was announced on 23 November 2009 when incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa decided to seek a fresh mandate prior to the expiration of his term in 2011...

 the party supported President Mahinda Rajapaksa

Mahinda Rajapaksa

Percy Mahendra "Mahinda" Rajapaksa ; ; born November 18, 1945) is the 6th and current President of Sri Lanka and Commander in Chief of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces. A lawyer by profession, Rajapaksa was first elected to the Parliament of Sri Lanka in 1970, and served as prime minister from April 6,...

 and in the April 2010 general election

Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 2010

The 2010 Sri Lankan parliamentary election was held on April 8 and April 20, 2010, to elect 225 members to Sri Lanka's 14th Parliament. 14,088,500 Sri Lankans were eligible to vote in the election at 11,102 polling stations...

 it contested as a part of the UPFA and won three seats. The party's current MPs are party leader Risad Badhiutheen

Risad Badhiutheen

Abdu Risad Badhiutheen is a Sri Lankan politician, a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a government minister.-References:...

 and Hunais Farook

Hunais Farook

Unaiz Farook is a Sri Lankan politician who represents the Vanni multi-member electoral district in the Sri Lankan Parliament. He is a member of the United People's Freedom Alliance and was elected in the 2010 Parliamentary elections....

 from the Vanni District and M. L. Alim Mohammad Hisbullah from Batticaloa District

Batticaloa Electoral District

Batticaloa Electoral District is one of the 22 multi-member electoral districts of Sri Lanka created by the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. The district is conterminous with the administrative district of Batticaloa in the Eastern province...

. Badhiutheen and Hisbollah are also government ministers.