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K. Sarveswaran

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K. Sarveswaran
Member of the Northern Provincial Council for Jaffna District
Assumed office
16 October 2013
Personal details
Political partyEelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front
Other political
affiliations
Tamil National Alliance
EthnicitySri Lankan Tamil

Arumugam Kandiah Sarveswaran is a Sri Lankan Tamil politician and provincial councillor.

Sarveswaran is the brother of Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front leader Suresh Premachandran.[1][2]

Sarveswaran contested the 2013 provincial council election as one of the Tamil National Alliance's candidates in Jaffna District and was elected to the Northern Provincial Council.[3][4] After the election he was appointed to assist the Chief Minister on economic planning.[5] He took his oath as provincial councillor in front of attorney-at-law K. Thayaparan at Vavuniya on 16 October 2013.[6][7]

References

  1. ^ Jeyaraj, D. B. S. (13 July 2013). "Northern Province Chief Ministerial Candidate Stakes in the TNA". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka).
  2. ^ Wamanan, Arthur (13 October 2013). "Wigneswaran to grill TNA dissidents". The Nation (Sri Lanka).
  3. ^ "PART I : SECTION (I) ó GENERAL Government Notifications PROVINCIAL COUNCILS ELECTIONS ACT, No. 2 OF 1988 Northern Province Provincial Council" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1829/33. 25 September 2013.
  4. ^ "PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS 2013 ñ Results and preferential votes: Northern Province". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 26 September 2013.
  5. ^ "Division of Ministries of the Northern Provincial Council & Subjects for Councillors" (PDF). TamilNet. 11 October 2013.
  6. ^ "Three more TNA elected councilors took oaths in Vavuniya". Asian Tribune. 17 October 2013.
  7. ^ "More TNA members elected to NPC take oaths today". News First. 16 October 2013.