B. Gajatheepan Explained

Honorific-Prefix:	Honourable
B. Gajatheepan
Honorific-Suffix:	MPC
Office1:	Member of the Northern Provincial Council for Jaffna District
Term Start1:	11 October 2013
Birth Date:	30 April 1982
Party:	Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi
Otherparty:	Tamil National Alliance
Alma Mater:	Jaffna Hindu College Kopay Teacher Training College
Profession:	Teacher
Blank1:	Ethnicity
Data1:	Sri Lankan Tamil

Balachandran Gajatheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil teacher, politician and provincial councillor.

Gajatheepan was educated at Jaffna Hindu College and Kopay Teacher Training College.^[1] He was a teacher at Analativu Sathasivam Maha Vidyalayam and Union College, Tellippalai.^[1] He is leader of the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi's youth wing.^[1]

Gajatheepan contested the 2013 provincial council election as one of the Tamil National Alliance's candidates in Jaffna District and was elected to the Northern Provincial Council.^{[2] [3]} After the election he was appointed to assist the Chief Minister on tourism.^[4] He took his oath as provincial councillor in front of Chief Minister C. V. Vigneswaran at Veerasingam Hall on 11 October 2013.^{[5] [6]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hindu old boys P.Ayngaranesan and B.Gajatheepan elected to NPC. jaffnahindu.org. 24 September 2013. 13 October 2013. 16 October 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131016215139/http://www.jaffnahindu.org/news/hindu-old-boys-p-ayngaranesan-and-b-gajatheepan-elected-to-northern-provincial-council-72.html. dead.
2. PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Government Notifications PROVINCIAL COUNCILS ELECTIONS ACT, No. 2 OF 1988 Northern Province Provincial Council . 25 September 2013 . The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary . 1829/33 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131228114115/http://www.documents.gov.lk/Extgzt/2013/PDF/Sep/1829_33/PG%201763%20%28E%29%20%20I-%201%20%20%28P.C%29.pdf . 2013-12-28 .
3. News: PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS 2013 – Results and preferential votes: Northern Province. The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 26 September 2013.
4. News: Division of Ministries of the Northern Provincial Council & Subjects for Councillors. TamilNet. 11 October 2013.
5. News: NPC members take oath in Jaffna after honouring fallen Tamil Heroes. TamilNet. 11 October 2013.
6. News: Northern Provincial Council TNA members take oaths . . 11 October 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131014080431/http://www.sundaytimes.lk/latest/38525-northern-provincial-council-tna-members-take-oaths.html . 2013-10-14 .