| Honorific-Prefix: | Hon. |
| K. Ganeshalingam | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | MMC |
| Office1: | Mayor of Colombo |
| Term Start1: | June 1996 |
| Term End1: | March 1997 |
| Predecessor1: | Ratnasiri Rajapakse |
| Successor1: | Karu Jayasuriya |
| Birth Date: | 3 January 1938 |
| Birth Place: | Puloly, Ceylon |
| Party: | United National Party |
| Alma Mater: | Hartley College S. Thomas' College University of Ceylon |
| Profession: | Accountant |
Kanagasabai Ganeshalingam (3 January 1938 – 4 December 2006) was a Sri Lankan Tamil politician. He was Mayor of Colombo.
Ganeshalingam was born on 3 January 1938 in Puloly in northern Ceylon.[1] [2] He was the son of Kanagasabai, a proctor, and Parvathipillai.[3]
He was educated at the Hartley College and S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia.[1] [2] After school he joined the University of Ceylon where he was an elected officer of the student union.[1] [2]
Ganeshalingam married Yamuna, daughter of Dr. Sri Pathmanathan.[1] [4] They had a son (Kandeepan) and a daughter (Menaka).[3] Ganeshalingam was a Hindu.[2]
After university Ganeshalingam joined Ford Rhodes Thornton & Co as an accountancy student.[1] [2] He then entered business.[1] He was director of the Tobacco Corporation and several other state organisations.[3] He was also chairman of Ceylon Oxygen.[3]
Ganeshalingam joined the United National Party (UNP) in 1960.[5] He was appointed treasurer of the UNP in 1989.[3] [5] [6] He was later elected to Colombo Municipal Council as a UNP candidate.[3] He served as Deputy Mayor of Colombo between July 1991 and the end of 1993.[2] He was acting Mayor of Colombo from January 1994 to June 1996 before serving as Mayor of Colombo between June 1996 and March 1997.[2] [7] He resigned from the UNP in January 1997.[5] [8] He then contested the 1997 election as a candidate of an independent group backed by the People's Alliance.[6] [9] He was re-elected to CMC and served as Leader of the Opposition from May 1997 to April 2002.[3]
Ganeshalingam died in Colombo on 4 December 2006.[1]