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Kanthar Nallathamby Srikantha is a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, politician and former Member of Parliament.[1]

Career

Srikantha is an attorney-at-law.[2][3] He is a member of Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO) and entered politics in the mid 1980s.[4]

Srikantha was one of the ENDLF/EPRLF/TELO/TULF alliance's candidates in Jaffna District at the 1989 parliamentary election but failed to get elected after coming eighth amongst the alliance candidates.[5][6]

On 20 October 2001 the All Ceylon Tamil Congress, Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front, TELO and Tamil United Liberation Front formed the Tamil National Alliance (TNA).[7][8] Srikantha was one of the TNA's candidates in Trincomalee District at the 2001 parliamentary election but failed to get re-elected.[9][10] He was one of the TNA's candidates in Jaffna District at the 2004 parliamentary election but again failed to get re-elected, coming ninth amongst the TNA candidates.[11] However, he entered Parliament in 2006 following the assassination of Nadarajah Raviraj on 10 November 2006.[12]

In 2010 Srikantha left TELO and TNA. He subsequently formed the Tamil National Liberation Alliance (TNLA) with other dissident members of the TNA.[13] Srikantha was one of the LLF/TNLA alliance's candidates in Jaffna District at the 2010 parliamentary election but the alliance failed to win any seats in Parliament.[14][15] In June 2011 TNLA was dissolved and Srikantha rejoined TELO and TNA.[16]

Srikantha contested the 2015 parliamentary election as one of the TNA's candidates in Jaffna District but failed get re-elected.[17][18][19]

Electoral history

Electoral history of N. Srikantha
Election Constituency Party Votes Result
1989 parliamentary[6] Jaffna District TELO 5,825 Not elected
2001 parliamentary Trincomalee District TNA Not elected
2004 parliamentary[11] Jaffna District TNA 33,210 Not elected
2010 parliamentary Jaffna District TNLA Not elected
2015 parliamentary Jaffna District TNA Not elected

References

  1. ^ "Directory of Past Members: N.Srikantha". Parliament of Sri Lanka.
  2. ^ Satyapalan, Franklin R. (17 February 2010). "Twelve TNA MPs sidelined – Sivajilingham". The Island (Sri Lanka).
  3. ^ "Trial-at-bar urged for Sarathambal rape case". TamilNet. 15 January 2000.
  4. ^ Chandraprema, C. A. (1 July 2009). ""Adieu assassination politics"- N.Srikantha". The Island (Sri Lanka).
  5. ^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1989" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2009.
  6. ^ a b de Silva, W. P. P.; Ferdinando, T. C. L. 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka (PDF). Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited. p. 182. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 June 2015.
  7. ^ Jeyaraj, D. B. S. "Tamil National Alliance enters critical third phase - 1". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). Archived from the original on 4 April 2010.
  8. ^ "Tamil parties sign MOU". TamilNet. 20 October 2001.
  9. ^ "Tamil Alliance files nominations in East and Vavuniya". TamilNet. 26 October 2001.
  10. ^ "General Election 2001 Preferences" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015.
  11. ^ a b "General Election 2004 Preferences" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2010.
  12. ^ "New TNA parliamentarian takes oath". TamilNet. 30 November 2006.
  13. ^ "New Tamil alliance in Sri Lanka says TNA betrayed Tamils". Colombo Page. 23 February 2010.
  14. ^ "PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Government Notifications THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS ACT, No. 1 OF 1981 Notice Under Section 24(1) GENERAL ELECTIONS OF MEMBERS OF THE PARLIAMENT" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1643/07. 2 March 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 November 2014.
  15. ^ "Parliamentary General Election - 2010 Jaffna District Final District Result". Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 1 November 2014.
  16. ^ "Sivajilingam, Sri Kantha decide to join TNA, restructure TELO". Tamilnet. 25 June 2011.
  17. ^ "PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Government Notifications THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS ACT, No. 1 OF 1981 Notice Under Section 24(1) GENERAL ELECTIONS OF MEMBERS OF THE PARLIAMENT" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1923/03. 13 July 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015.
  18. ^ "Ranil tops with over 500,000 votes in Colombo". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 19 August 2015.
  19. ^ "Preferential Votes". Daily News (Sri Lanka). 19 August 2015. Archived from the original on 20 August 2015.

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