Sri Lankan politician
Arumugam Kandiah Sarveswaran (Tamil : ஆறுமுகம் கந்தையா சர்வேஸ்வரன் , romanized: Āṟumukam Kantaiyā Carvēsvaraṉ ) is a Sri Lankan Tamil politician and provincial minister.
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]
Sarveswaran was sworn in as Minister of Education, Sports and Youth Affairs and Cultural Affairs in front of Governor Reginald Cooray on 29 June 2017.[ 8] [ 9] [ 10]
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^ Wamanan, Arthur (13 October 2013). "Wigneswaran to grill TNA dissidents" . The Nation . Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 1 July 2017 .
^ "PART I : SECTION (I) — 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. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 25 September 2013.
^ "PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS 2013 – Results and preferential votes: Northern Province" . The Daily Mirror . Colombo, Sri Lanka. 26 September 2013. Archived from the original on 2 October 2013.
^ "Division of Ministries of the Northern Provincial Council & Subjects for Councillors" (PDF) . TamilNet . 11 October 2013.
^ "Three more TNA elected councilors took oaths in Vavuniya" . Asian Tribune . 17 October 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2017 .
^ "More TNA members elected to NPC take oaths today" . News First . Colombo, Sri Lanka. 16 October 2013. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013.
^ Madushanka, Romesh (29 June 2017). "Two ministers appointed to NPC" . The Daily Mirror . Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 1 July 2017 .
^ "Two new Northern Provincial Council Ministers" . Daily News . Colombo, Sri Lanka. 29 June 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2017 .
^ "PART IV (A) - PROVINCIAL COUNCILS Appointments & C., by the Governors NORTHERN PROVINCE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL Appointments made by the Governor of Northern Province" (PDF) . The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary . 2029/17. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 25 July 2017.