N. Srikantha Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Hon.
N. Srikantha
Native Name:Tamil: ந.ஶ்ரீகாந்தா
Honorific-Suffix:MP
Constituency Mp:Jaffna District
Parliament:Sri Lankan
Term Start1:2006
Term End1:2010
Predecessor1:Nadarajah Raviraj
Party:Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization
Otherparty:Tamil National Alliance
Profession:Lawyer

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

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Directory of Past Members: N.Srikantha. Parliament of Sri Lanka.
  2. News: Satyapalan. Franklin R.. Twelve TNA MPs sidelined – Sivajilingham. The Island (Sri Lanka). 17 February 2010.
  3. News: Trial-at-bar urged for Sarathambal rape case. TamilNet. 15 January 2000.
  4. News: Chandraprema. C. A.. "Adieu assassination politics"- N.Srikantha. The Island (Sri Lanka). 1 July 2009.
  5. Web site: Result of Parliamentary General Election 1989. Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. dead. https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20090304101343/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1989%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF. 2009-03-04.
  6. Book: de Silva. W. P. P.. Ferdinando. T. C. L.. 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka. Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited. 182. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150623233447/http://noolaham.net/project/148/14715/14715.pdf. 2015-06-23.
  7. News: Jeyaraj. D. B. S.. Tamil National Alliance enters critical third phase - 1. The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). https://web.archive.org/web/20100404042520/http://www.dailymirror.lk/print/index.php/opinion1/6933.html. 4 April 2010.
  8. News: Tamil parties sign MOU. TamilNet. 20 October 2001.
  9. News: Tamil Alliance files nominations in East and Vavuniya. TamilNet. 26 October 2001.
  10. Web site: General Election 2001 Preferences. Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924115735/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/preference2001GE.pdf. 2015-09-24.
  11. Web site: General Election 2004 Preferences. Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100304015514/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Preference2004GE.pdf. 2010-03-04.
  12. News: New TNA parliamentarian takes oath. 30 November 2006. TamilNet.
  13. News: New Tamil alliance in Sri Lanka says TNA betrayed Tamils. 23 February 2010. Colombo Page.
  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. 2 March 2010. The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1643/07. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20141101220555/http://www.documents.gov.lk/Extgzt/2010/PDF/Mar/1643_7/1643_7%28E%29.pdf. 1 November 2014.
  15. Web site: Parliamentary General Election - 2010 Jaffna District Final District Result. Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. dead. https://archive.today/20141101142058/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/parliamentary_elections/10Z.html. 2014-11-01.
  16. News: Sivajilingam, Sri Kantha decide to join TNA, restructure TELO. 25 June 2011. Tamilnet.
  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. 13 July 2015. The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1923/03. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150923223757/http://www.documents.gov.lk/Extgzt/2015/PDF/Jul/1923_03/1923_03E.pdf. 23 September 2015.
  18. News: Ranil tops with over 500,000 votes in Colombo. The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 19 August 2015.
  19. News: Preferential Votes. Daily News (Sri Lanka). 19 August 2015. dead. https://archive.today/20150820025307/http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=political/preferential-votes-2. 20 August 2015.

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