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Mayor of Jaffna
since 1 September 2009
Jaffna Municipal Council
StyleHer Worship
SeatJaffna Town Hall
Constituting instrumentLocal Government Ordinance No. 11 of 1920
Formation1 January 1923
First holderA. Canagaratnam

The Mayor of Jaffna is the head of the Jaffna Municipal Council, the local authority for the city of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka.

Mayors

Chairmen
Name Took office Left office Refs
A. Canagaratnam [1][2]
Sam A. Sabapathy 1937 1939 [3]
K. Aiyadurai 1942 1943 [4]
Mayors
Name Party Took office Left office Refs
Sam A. Sabapathy 6 January 1949 31 December 1949 [3][5][6]
Cathiravelu Ponnambalam 6 January 1950 31 December 1951
Sam A. Sabapathy 11 January 1952 31 December 1954 [3][5][6]
Kadhi. M. A. M. M. Sulthan 5 January 1955 31 December 1955
S. A. Navaratnam 16 January 1956 31 December 1957
P. Kasipillai 6 July 1960 31 December 1960
T. S. Thurairajah 7 January 1961 12 February 1962
M. Jacob 19 February 1962 15 May 1963
S. A. Tharmalingam 28 May 1962 4 April 1963 [7]
P. M. Yoon 11 April 1963 6 May 1963
T. S. Thurairajah 15 May 1963 6 May 1963
S. S. Mahadeva 8 July 1965 31 December 1965
S. Nagarajah 8 January 1966 24 March 1966 [8]
Alfred Duraiappah 15 February 1970 21 April 1971 [9][10][11]
!align="center" style="background:Template:Sri Lanka Freedom Party/meta/color; color:white;"| Alfred Duraiappah Sri Lanka Freedom Party 22 April 1971 27 July 1975 [9][10][11]
R. Viswanathan 1 June 1979 31 May 1983 [12][13][14]
!align="center" style="background:Template:Tamil United Liberation Front/meta/color; color:black;"| Sarojini Yogeswaran Tamil United Liberation Front 11 March 1998 17 May 1998 [15][16][17]
!align="center" style="background:Template:Tamil United Liberation Front/meta/color; color:black;"| Pon Sivapalan Tamil United Liberation Front 29 June 1998 11 September 1998 [18][19]
!align="center" style="background:Template:Tamil United Liberation Front/meta/color; color:black;"| Nadarajah Raviraj Tamil United Liberation Front 9 January 2001 18 December 2001 [20][21][22]
!align="center" style="background:Template:Tamil United Liberation Front/meta/color; color:black;"| Sellan Kandaiyan Tamil United Liberation Front 15 January 2002 13 February 2003 [23][24][25]
!align="center" style="background:Template:Eelam People's Democratic Party/meta/color; color:white;"| Yogeswari Patkunarajah Eelam People's Democratic Party 1 September 2009 [26][27][28]

Notes

  1. ^ Arumugam 1997, p. 28.
  2. ^ "Stamp to honour Cathiravelu Sittampalam". Daily News (Sri Lanka). 26 February 2004.
  3. ^ a b c Arumugam 1997, pp. 169–170.
  4. ^ Arumugam 1997, p. 2.
  5. ^ a b Thurairajah, V. S. (12 December 2002). "Jaffna Library rises from its ruins". Daily News (Sri Lanka).
  6. ^ a b Palakidnar, Ananth (5 December 2004). "No shoes please". Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka).
  7. ^ Arumugam 1997, p. 229.
  8. ^ "Former Mayor of Jaffna passes away". TamilNet. 9 May 2008.
  9. ^ a b Arumugam 1997, pp. 50–51.
  10. ^ a b Pethiyagoda, A. C. B. (19 October 2014). "Train Travel to Jaffna in the mid-1950s". The Island (Sri Lanka).
  11. ^ a b "Masked gunmen kill Jaffna Mayor Shot dead outside temple". Daily News (Sri Lanka). 26 May 2009.
  12. ^ Rajakarunanayake, Lucien (11 January 2014). "Spotlight on Rudrakumaran and Channel 4". The Island (Sri Lanka).
  13. ^ Padmasiri, Jayashika (27 May 2012). "Phoenix from the Ashes". Ceylon Today.
  14. ^ Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 27: Horsewhip Amirthalingham". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story.
  15. ^ Suryanarayana, P. S. (6 June 1998). "Pacification efforts in peril". Frontline (magazine). 15 (12).
  16. ^ "Jaffna Mayor Killed in Ambush at Home". Los Angeles Times. 18 May 1998.
  17. ^ "Jaffna Mayor's killing claimed". TamilNet. 18 May 1998.
  18. ^ "World: South Asia Sri Lanka bomb kills Jaffna mayor". BBC News. 11 September 1998.
  19. ^ "Jaffna Mayor succumbs to injuries". TamilNet. 11 September 1998.
  20. ^ "Sri Lankan MP killed in Colombo". BBC News. 10 November 2006.
  21. ^ "Tamil Parliamentarian Raviraj assassinated in Colombo". TamilNet. 10 November 2006.
  22. ^ Reddy, B. Muralidhar (2 January 2008). "Tamil lawmaker's killer detained, injured in retaliatory firing". The Hindu.
  23. ^ "Sangaree readies to contest in Jaffna". TamilNet. 21 February 2004.
  24. ^ "University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) Bulletin: The Worm Turns and Elections Where the People Will Not Count Effect on choice of candidates before the People". The Island (Sri Lanka). 12 March 2004.
  25. ^ "Long range vision on the LTTE". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 30 March 2003.
  26. ^ "Patkunam Yogeswary appointed Mayor of JMC". TamilNet. 11 August 2009.
  27. ^ "Jaffna Mayor's visit to New Delhi". Ceylon Today. 31 May 2014.
  28. ^ Palakidnar, Ananth (4 October 2009). "Light at the end of the tunnel for Jaffna - Mayoress". Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka).

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