Vinthan Kanagaratnam

Honourable
Vinthan Kanagaratnam
MPC MMC
விந்தன் கனகரத்தினம்
Member of the Northern Provincial Council for Jaffna District
Incumbent
Assumed office
11 October 2013
Member of Jaffna Municipal Council
In office
2009–2013
Personal details
Political partyTamil Eelam Liberation Organization
Other political
affiliations		Tamil National Alliance
EthnicitySri Lankan Tamil

Karthikesu Nadarasa Kanagaratnam (commonly known as Vinthan Kanagaratnam) is a Sri Lankan Tamil politician and provincial councillor.

Kanagaratnam is treasurer of the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization.[1] He contested the 2009 local government election as one of the Tamil National Alliance's candidates and was elected to the Jaffna Municipal Council.[2] He contested the 2013 provincial council election as one of the TNA's candidates in Jaffna District and was elected to the Northern Provincial Council.[3][4] After the election he was appointed to assist the Minister of Fisheries, Transport, Trade and Rural Development on trade and commerce.[5] He took his oath as provincial councillor in front of Chief Minister C. V. Vigneswaran at Veerasingam Hall on 11 October 2013.[6][7]

  1. ^ "History". Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization.
  2. ^ "Local Authorities Election 2009 Final Results Jaffna Municipal Council - Preferences" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 December 2009. Retrieved 19 August 2009.
  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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 3 November 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. ^ "NPC members take oath in Jaffna after honouring fallen Tamil Heroes". TamilNet. 11 October 2013.
  7. ^ "Northern Provincial Council TNA members take oaths". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 11 October 2013. Archived from the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2013.