Akilan Manoharan Ganesan (born 17 December 1959) is a Sri Lankan trade unionist, politician and government minister.

He is the leader of the Democratic People's Front (DPF) and Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA), both constituent parties of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya.

[9] Ganesan founded the Western People's Front in 2000 to represent Tamils living in the greater Colombo region.

[7] He contested the 2001 parliamentary election as one of the United National Front's (UNF) candidates in Colombo District.

[15][16][17] Ganesan was one of the United National Front for Good Governance's candidates in Colombo District at the 2015 parliamentary election.