Perumal Rajadurai Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Hon.
Perumal Rajadurai
Honorific-Suffix:MP
Constituency Mp1:Nuwara Eliya District
Parliament1:Sri Lankan
Term Start1:2010
Term End1:2015
Birth Date:26 March 1967
Party:United National Party
Otherparty:United National Front for Good Governance
Occupation:Attorney-at-law

Sundaram Perumal Rajadurai (born 26 March 1967) is a Sri Lankan attorney-at-law, politician and former member of parliament.

Early life and family

Rajadurai was born on 26 March 1967.[1] His family were estate workers at the Rockland estate in Udapussellawa.[2] He studied at Suriyagaha Pathana Tamil Vidyalayam and Ragala Tamil Vidyalayam.[3]

Career

Rajadurai is an attorney-at-law, acting magistrate and president of the Nuwara Eliya Rotary Club.[2] [3]

Rajadurai contested the 2010 parliamentary election as one of the United People's Freedom Alliance's (UPFA) candidates in Nuwara Eliya District. He was elected and entered Parliament.[4] [5] On 8 August 2013 Rajadurai left the Ceylon Workers' Congress to sit as an independent MP supporting UPFA.[6] [7] He joined the National Union of Workers as its deputy leader on 18 August 2013.[8]

Rajadurai resigned from the UPFA on 21 November 2014 to support common opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena at the presidential election.[9] [10] He joined the United National Party (UNP) on 25 November 2014.[11] He was appointed the UNP organizer for Nuwara Eliya.[12] He failed to get re-elected at the 2015 parliamentary election after coming eighth amongst the United National Front for Good Governance candidates.[13]

Electoral history

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Directory of Members: Perumal Rajathurai. Parliament of Sri Lanka.
  2. Web site: Jeyaraj. D. B. S.. Decline of Tamil representation outside the North and East. dbsjeyaraj.com. 23 April 2010.
  3. News: New faces in Parliament. The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 18 April 2010.
  4. Web site: Parliamentary General Election - 2010 Nuwara Eliya Preferences. Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. 2013-03-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20100513034353/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/GE2010_preferences/Nuwara%20Eliya_pref_GE2010.pdf. 2010-05-13. dead.
  5. News: General Elections 2010 - Preferential Votes. The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 11 April 2010.
  6. News: CWC MP resigns from party. The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 8 August 2013.
  7. News: MP Rajadurai resigns from CWC. The Nation (Sri Lanka). 8 August 2013. 13 December 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141213234727/http://www.nation.lk/edition/breaking-news/item/19901-mp-rajadurai-resigns-from-cwc.html. 13 December 2014. dead.
  8. News: Rajathurai joins NUW. The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 19 August 2013.
  9. News: CWC MP quits UPFA, joins UNP. Daily FT. 26 November 2014. 13 December 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141213213332/http://www.ft.lk/2014/11/26/cwc-mp-quits-upfa-joins-unp/. 13 December 2014. dead.
  10. News: Jabbar. Zacki. UPFA MP Perumal Rajathurai defects to UNP. The Island (Sri Lanka). 22 November 2014.
  11. News: Borham. Maneshka. UPFA MP crosses over. The Nation (Sri Lanka). 25 November 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20141127185726/http://www.nation.lk/edition/breaking-news/item/35573-upfa-mp-crosses-over.html. 27 November 2014.
  12. News: No Maithri for Mahinda. Daily FT. 22 November 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20141129070825/http://www.ft.lk/2014/11/22/no-maithri-for-mahinda/. 29 November 2014.
  13. News: Ranil tops with over 500,000 votes in Colombo. The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 19 August 2015.

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