Honorific-Prefix: | Hon. |
Jeevan Thondaman | |
Native Name: | Tamil: ஜீவன் தொண்டமான் ජීවන් තොණ්ඩමන් |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Office1: | Minister of Water Supply and Estate Infrastructure |
President1: | Ranil Wickremesinghe |
Term Start1: | 19 January 2023 |
Predecessor1: | Keheliya Rambukwella |
Office2: | Minister of State for Estate Housing and Community Infrastructure |
Term Start2: | 12 August 2020 |
Term End2: | 3 April 2022 |
Office3: | Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka |
Constituency3: | Nuwara Eliya District |
Term Start3: | 20 August 2020 |
Birth Date: | 9 November 1994 |
Party: | Ceylon Workers' Congress |
Otherparty: | Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance |
Alma Mater: | Northumbria University |
Jeevan Thondaman (Tamil: ஜீவன் தொண்டமான்; born 9 November 1994) is a Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister.[1]
Thondaman was born on 9 November 1994.[1] [2] He is the son of Arumugam Thondaman and great-grandson of Savumiamoorthy Thondaman, former leaders of the Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC) and government ministers.[3] He was educated at Gateway Primary School, Colombo, Lady Andal, Chennai and Chinmaya International Residential School, Coimbatore.[2] After school he joined Northumbria University, graduating in 2017 with a LLB degree.[2] [4]
Thondaman interned at a law firm in London.[2] He then returned to Sri Lanka to assist his father in his political and trade union work.[2] In December 2017 a court order was issued to arrest him in connection with an assault on a National Union of Workers supporter at a funeral in Maskeliya.[5] [6]
In June 2020, following the death of his father, Thondaman was appointed general-secretary of the CWC.[7] [8] He contested the 2020 parliamentary election as a Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance electoral alliance candidate in Nuwara Eliya District and was elected to the Parliament of Sri Lanka.[9] [10] [11] [12] After the election he was appointed State Minister of Estate Housing and Community Infrastructure.[13] [14] [15]
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