Karuppiah Kumaravelu

Hon.
Karuppiah Kumaravelu
Member of the Ceylon Parliament
for Kotagala
In office
1947–1952
Preceded byseat created
Succeeded byUkku Banda Unamboowe
Personal details
Born
Karuppiah Kumaravelu

(1921-09-03)3 September 1921
NationalityCeylonese
Political partyCeylon India Congress
Professionpolitician

Karuppiah Kumaravelu (born 3 September 1921) was a Ceylonese politician.[1][2]

Kumaravelu was elected at the 1st parliamentary election, held between 23 August 1947 and 20 September 1947, representing the Ceylon India Congress in the Kotagala electorate,[3] securing 53.5% of the total vote, 3,543 votes ahead of his nearest rival.[4][5]

Kumaravelu, the nephew of Savumiamoorthy Thondaman,[6] a founding member of the Ceylon India Congress, was one of seven CIC members elected to parliament in 1947.[7]

In 1948 the Parliament passed the Ceylon Citizenship Act and subsequently in 1949 passed the Ceylon (Parliamentary Elections) Amendment Act No.48, whereby Indian citizens were unable to contest for parliamentary seats or vote; as a result Kumaravelu was unable to contest his seat at the next parliamentary elections.[3][8][9]

  1. ^ "Hon. Kumaravelu, Karuppiah, M.P." Parliament of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  2. ^ Jātika Rājya Sabhāva. Pustakālaya (1972). Members of the Legislatures of Ceylon: 1931-1972. National State Assembly Library. p. 157.
  3. ^ a b Seneviratna, Anuradha (2001). Sunset in a Valley: Kotmale. Sarasavi Publishers. pp. 75–76. ISBN 9789555731485.
  4. ^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1947" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 21 September 2017.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ Goonetilleke, T. V. (Ed) (1983). Members of the Legislatures of Sri Lanka, 1931-83: Record of Service. Library of Parliament. p. 203.
  6. ^ Avtar Singh Bhasin (2001). India-Sri Lanka relations and Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict documents, 1947-2000, Volume 3. Indian Research Press. p. 1,441.
  7. ^ de Silva, Lakshmi (2 June 2009). "Indian Tamils and Prabakaran's Eelam: Seeking Tamil Nadu's refuge after its betrayal". Daily News. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  8. ^ "Statelessness in Sri Lanka". UNHCR in Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 23 October 2009. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
  9. ^ Ethnic Conflict of Sri Lanka: Time Line - From Independence to 1999 Archived 2009-12-12 at the Wayback Machine, International Centre for Ethnic Studies