Palani Digambaran Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Hon.
Palani Digambaran
Native Name:பழனி திகாம்பரம்
පලනි දිගම්බරන්
Native Name Lang:ta
Honorific-Suffix:MP MPC
Office1:Minister of Hill Country, New Villages, Infrastructure and Community Development
President1:Maithripala Sirisena
Term Start1:4 September 2015
Term End1:18 November 2019
Office2:Minister of Plantation Infrastructure Development
Term Start2:12 January 2015
Term End2:17 August 2015
Office3:Deputy Minister of National Languages and Social Integration
Term Start3:21 August 2014
Term End3:10 December 2014
Constituency Mp4:Nuwara Eliya District
Parliament4:Sri Lankan
Term Start4:2010
Office5:Member of the Central Provincial Council for Nuwara Eliya District
Term Start5:2004
Term End5:2010
Successor5:G. M. M. Piyasiri
Birth Date:10 January 1967
Party:National Union of Workers

S. Udeiappan Palani Alagan Digambaran (ta|எஸ். உடையப்பன் பழனி அழகன் திகாம்பரம்; born 10 January 1967) is a Sri Lankan politician and government minister. He is the leader of the National Union of Workers (NUW), a member of the Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA) and United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG).

Early life

Digambaran was born on 10 January 1967.[1]

Career

Digambaran runs a textile business and is leader of the National Union of Workers (NUW).[2] [3]

Digambaran contested the 2004 provincial council election as one of the Up-Country People's Front's candidates in Nuwara Eliya District and was elected to the Central Provincial Council.[4] He was re-elected at the 2009 provincial council election, this times as a United National Front (UNF) candidate.[5]

Digambaran contested the 2010 parliamentary election as one of the UNF candidates in Nuwara Eliya District and was elected to Parliament.[6] [7] The NUW left the UNF alliance on 22 April 2010 after a dispute over National List seats.[8] Digambaran continued to be part of the opposition as an independent MP.[9] In August 2013 Digambaran and two others were charged with attempting to acquire 12 perches of land and a vehicle by force from their lawful owner but the case was dropped after the defendants offered to compensate the victim for the vehicle.[10]

Digambaran was appointed Deputy Minister of National Languages and Social Integration on 21 August 2014.[11] [12] He resigned from the UPFA government on 10 December 2014 to support common opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena at the presidential election.[13] [14] After the election newly elected President Sirisena rewarded Digambaran by appointing him Minister of Plantation Infrastructure Development.[15] [16]

Digambaran was one of the United National Front for Good Governance's candidates in Nuwara Eliya District at the 2015 parliamentary election. He was elected and re-entered Parliament.[17] [18] [19] He was sworn in as Minister of Hill Country, New Villages, Infrastructure and Community Development on 4 September 2015.[20] [21] [22]

Electoral history

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Directory of Members: Palany Thigambaram. Parliament of Sri Lanka.
  2. News: New faces in Parliament. The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 18 April 2010.
  3. Web site: Jeyaraj. D. B. S.. Decline of Tamil representation outside the North and East. dbsjeyaraj.com. 23 April 2010.
  4. Web site: Results of Provincial Council Elections 2004. https://web.archive.org/web/20090107101529/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/2004Provincial.pdf. dead. 2009-01-07. Department of Elections, Sri Lanka.
  5. Web site: Preferences Nuwara Eliya. Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. 2014-12-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20091210040252/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/Provincial/2009/Central/district/neliyapref.pdf#. 2009-12-10. dead.
  6. Web site: Parliamentary General Election - 2010 Nuwara Eliya Preferences. Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. 2014-12-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20100513034353/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/GE2010_preferences/Nuwara%20Eliya_pref_GE2010.pdf#. 2010-05-13. dead.
  7. News: General Elections 2010 - Preferential Votes. The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 11 April 2010.
  8. News: Workers Union leaves UNF. Perera. Yohan. 23 April 2010. Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 23 April 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100426144347/http://www.dailymirror.lk/print/index.php/news/front-page-news/8813.html. 26 April 2010.
  9. News: NUW to back govt.. Indrajith . Saman. 23 April 2010. Island, Sri Lanka. 23 April 2010.
  10. News: Weerasooriya. Ananda. Bail approved for Digambaram. Ceylon Today. 9 August 2013.
  11. News: Somawardana. Melissa. Prabha Ganesan and Digambaran sworn in as Deputy Ministers. News First. 21 August 2014.
  12. News: Two more Deputy Ministers take oaths before President in Si Lanka. Colombo Page. 21 August 2014. 14 December 2014. 13 December 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141213220627/http://www.colombopage.com/archive_14B/Aug21_1408629270CH.php. dead.
  13. News: Ferdinando. Shamindra. Two deputy ministers quit; CWC suffers split. The Island (Sri Lanka). 11 December 2014.
  14. News: Srinivasan. Meera. 2 more MPs leave Rajapaksa government. The Hindu. 11 December 2014.
  15. News: New Cabinet ministers sworn in. The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 12 January 2015.
  16. News: New Cabinet takes oaths. The Nation (Sri Lanka). 12 January 2015. 2015-01-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20150118145912/http://www.nation.lk/edition/latest-top-stories/item/37306-new-cabinet-takes-oaths.html#. 2015-01-18. dead.
  17. PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Government Notifications PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS ACT, No. 1 OF 1981. 19 August 2015. The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1928/03. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150923223730/http://www.documents.gov.lk/Extgzt/2015/PDF/Aug/1928_03/1928_03%20E.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.
  20. PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Appointments & c., by the President. 14 September 2015. The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1932/07.
  21. News: New Cabinet. The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 4 September 2015.
  22. News: The new Cabinet. Ceylon Today. 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: Jayakody. Pradeep. The Comparison of Preferential Votes in 2015 & 2010. The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 28 August 2015.

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