Mano Ganesan Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Hon.
Mano Ganesan
Native Name:Tamil: மனோ கணேசன்
Sinhala; Sinhalese: මනෝ ගනේසන්
Office1:Minister of National Integration, Reconciliation and Official Languages
President1:Maithripala Sirisena
Primeminister1:Ranil Wickremesinghe
Term Start1:4 September 2015
Term End1:21 November 2019
Predecessor1:Vasudeva Nanayakkara
Successor1:Office Dissolved
Constituency Mp2:Colombo District
Parliament2:Sri Lankan
Term Start2:2015
Term Start3:2001
Term End3:2010
Office4:Member of the Western Provincial Council for Colombo District
Term Start4:2014
Term End4:2015
Term Start5:1999
Term End5:2001
Office6:Member of Colombo Municipal Council
Term Start6:2011
Term End6:2014
Birth Date:17 December 1959
Party:Democratic People's Front
Otherparty:Tamil Progressive Alliance
Occupation:Trade unionist

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), members of the United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG).[1] [2] [3]

Early life

Ganesan was born on 17 December 1959.[4] He is a son of V. P. Ganesan, trade unionist and film producer, and brother of Praba Ganesan, former Member of Parliament.[5] [6]

Career

Ganesan is president of the Democratic Workers Congress trade union.[7] [8] He contested the 1999 provincial council election as one of the Indian Origin People's Front's candidates in Colombo District and was elected to the Western Provincial Council.[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. He was elected and entered Parliament.[10] He was re-elected at the 2004 parliamentary election.[11]

Ganesan contested the 2010 parliamentary election as one of the UNF's candidates in Kandy District but failed to get re-elected after coming seventh amongst the UNF candidates.[12] He contested the 2011 local government election as a Democratic People's Front (DPF) candidate and was elected to Colombo Municipal Council.[13] [14] He contested the 2014 provincial election as a DPF candidate and was re-elected to the Western Provincial Council.[15] [16] [17]

Ganesan was one of the United National Front for Good Governance's candidates in Colombo District at the 2015 parliamentary election. He was elected and re-entered Parliament.[18] [19] [20] He was sworn in as Minister of National Dialogue on 4 September 2015.[21] [22]

Ganesan is founder and convener of the Civil Monitoring Commission on Extra-Judicial Killings and Disappearance.[23] [24] He was the first runner-up in the 2007 Freedom Defender's Award.[25] [26]

Electoral history

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Notes and References

  1. News: Pothmulla. Lahiru. Video: DPF, UPF, WNC form new political alliance. The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 3 June 2015.
  2. News: Tamil parties forms new alliance. The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 3 June 2015. 6 June 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150606050531/http://www.sundaytimes.lk/news-online/tamil-parties-forms-new-alliance.html. 6 June 2015. dead. dmy-all.
  3. News: Gunawardana. Chamodi. Up-country political parties form Tamil Progressive Alliance. Daily FT. 4 June 2015.
  4. Web site: Directory of Members: Mano Ganesan. Parliament of Sri Lanka.
  5. News: Jeyaraj. D. B. S.. Birth of the TPA and political representation of Tamils living outside the North-East. The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 20 June 2015.
  6. News: Voting for a cause.... The Nation (Sri Lanka). 12 September 2010.
  7. Web site: Sri Lanka’s Mano Ganesan Gives a Voice to the Voiceless. United States Department of State. 10 December 2007.
  8. News: Mano pelted with stones in Kotagala. adaderana.lk. 21 April 2013.
  9. Jeyaraj. D. B. S.. 15 April 1999. Provincial Council Elections: A Mixed Result. Tamil Times. XVIII. 4. 4–7. 0266-4488.
  10. Web site: General Election 2001 Preferences . https://web.archive.org/web/20100304015155/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/preference2001GE.pdf . dead . 2010-03-04 . Department of Elections, Sri Lanka .
  11. Web site: General Election 2004 Preferences . https://web.archive.org/web/20100304015514/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Preference2004GE.pdf . dead . 2010-03-04 . Department of Elections, Sri Lanka .
  12. Web site: Parliamentary General Election - 2010 Kandy Preferences . Department of Elections, Sri Lanka . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100617021646/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/GE2010_preferences/Mahanuwara_pref_GE2010.pdf . 2010-06-17 .
  13. Web site: Local Authorities 08.10.2011 Colombo Municipal Council. Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. 2015-08-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924115522/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/LGA%202011/pref2011iii/PrefColombo.pdf. 2015-09-24. dead.
  14. News: Consequences of Tamil genocide engulf entire island: Bahu. TamilNet. 22 October 2011.
  15. PART I : SECTION (I) ó GENERAL Government Notifications PROVINCIAL COUNCILS ELECTIONS ACT, No. 2 OF 1988 Western Province Provincial Council. 1 April 2014. The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1856/09. 29 August 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150923223641/http://www.documents.gov.lk/Extgzt/2014/PDF/Apr/1856_09/1856_09%20%28E%29.pdf. 23 September 2015. dead. dmy-all.
  16. News: Full list of preferential votes. The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 31 March 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140403233018/http://www.dailymirror.lk/caption-story/45236-full-list-of-preferential-votes.html. 3 April 2014.
  17. News: Somawardana. Melissa. Colombo District Preferential Votes: Complete list of winners. News First. 31 March 2014.
  18. PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Government Notifications PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS ACT, No. 1 OF 1981 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923223730/http://www.documents.gov.lk/Extgzt/2015/PDF/Aug/1928_03/1928_03%20E.pdf . dead . 23 September 2015 . 19 August 2015 . The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary . 1928/03 .
  19. News: Ranil tops with over 500,000 votes in Colombo. The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 19 August 2015.
  20. News: Preferential Votes . https://archive.today/20150820025307/http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=political/preferential-votes-2 . dead . 20 August 2015 . . 19 August 2015 .
  21. News: New Cabinet. The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 4 September 2015.
  22. News: The new Cabinet . . 4 September 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150907020713/http://www.ceylontoday.lk/16-102824-news-detail-the-new-cabinet.html . 7 September 2015 .
  23. News: Colombo withdraws security, Mano Ganesan fears for his life. TamilNet. 19 December 2007.
  24. News: Handunnetti. Dilrukshi. ‘Defence establishment linked to abductions’. The Sunday Leader. 21 September 2008.
  25. News: Ganesan first runner-up for U.S. HR Award. The Island (Sri Lanka). 12 December 2007.
  26. News: Mano Ganesan, first runner-up for U.S. Human Rights Award - US Embassy. TamilNet. 11 December 2007.
  27. News: Jayakody. Pradeep. The Comparison of Preferential Votes in 2015 & 2010. The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 28 August 2015.

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