P. Ariyaratnam Explained

Honorific-Prefix:	Honourable
P. Ariyaratnam
Honorific-Suffix:	MPC
Office1:	Member of the Northern Provincial Council for Kilinochchi District
Term Start1:	11 October 2013
Party:	Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi
Otherparty:	Tamil National Alliance
Profession:	Civil servant
Blank1:	Ethnicity
Data1:	Sri Lankan Tamil

Pasupathy Ariyaratnam is a Sri Lankan Tamil civil servant, politician and provincial councillor.

Ariyaratnam was director of education for the Kilinochchi Education Zone and Mullaitivu Education Zone and Additional Provincial Director of Education for the Vanni region.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Ariyaratnam contested the 2013 provincial council election as one of the Tamil National Alliance's candidates in Kilinochchi District and was elected to the Northern Provincial Council.^{[4] [5]} After the election he was appointed to assist the Chief Minister on local government.^[6] He took his oath as provincial councillor in front of Chief Minister C. V. Vigneswaran at Veerasingam Hall on 11 October 2013.^{[7] [8]}

Notes and References

1. News: Kilinochchi schools face acute teacher shortage. TamilNet. 11 February 2001.
2. News: SLAF bombs Mullaiththeevu before GCE(A/L) exams. TamilNet. 23 August 2007.
3. Web site: Handing over of 200 Nos. of bicycles and learning kits to school children at Welioya School. Northern Provincial Council. 20 December 2009.
4. 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. 28 December 2013.
5. News: PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS 2013 – Results and preferential votes: Northern Province. The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 26 September 2013.
6. News: Division of Ministries of the Northern Provincial Council & Subjects for Councillors. TamilNet. 11 October 2013.
7. News: NPC members take oath in Jaffna after honouring fallen Tamil Heroes. TamilNet. 11 October 2013.
8. News: Northern Provincial Council TNA members take oaths. The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 11 October 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131014080431/http://www.sundaytimes.lk/latest/38525-northern-provincial-council-tna-members-take-oaths.html. 14 October 2013.