R. Thurairatnam

Honourable
R. Thurairatnam
MPC MMC
Member of the Eastern Provincial Council for Batticaloa District
Incumbent
Assumed office
2008
Member of Batticaloa Municipal Council
In office
2008–2008
Succeeded byKandasamy Mahenthiraraja
Personal details
Political partyEelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front
Other political
affiliations		Tamil National Alliance
Residence(s)29A Lake Road, Batticaloa
EthnicitySri Lankan Tamil

Rasiah Thurairatnam is a Sri Lankan Tamil politician and provincial councillor.

A member of the Padmanaba wing of the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front, Thurairatnam contested the 2008 local government election as part of an independent group and was elected to Batticaloa Municipal Council.[1][2]

Thurairatnam contested the 2008 provincial council election as one of the Tamil Democratic National Alliance's candidates in Batticaloa District and was elected to the Eastern Provincial Council (EPC).[3] Thurairatnam and other newly elected provincial councillors took their oaths on 16 May 2008 in front of President Mahinda Rajapaksa.[4]

Thurairatnam contested the 2012 provincial council election as one of the Tamil National Alliance's candidates in Batticaloa District and was re-elected to the (EPC).[5] Thurairatnam and the other newly elected TNA provincial councillors took their oaths on 28 September 2012 in front of TNA leader and Member of Parliament R. Sampanthan.[6]

  1. ^ "PART IV (B) — LOCAL GOVERNMENT Notices under the Local Authorities Elections Ordinance THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES ELECTIONS ORDINANCE (CHAPTER 262)" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1541/08. 18 March 2008.
  2. ^ "Ex-Tamil Tigers win local polls". BBC News. 11 March 2008. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  3. ^ "PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Government Notifications PROVINCIAL COUNCILS ELECTIONS ACT, No. 2 OF 1988 Eastern Province Provincial Council" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1549/17. 15 May 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2014.
  4. ^ "New Provincial Council Ministers". Asian Tribune. 17 May 2012.
  5. ^ "Preferences" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 April 2014.
  6. ^ "Eastern Province Chief Minister assumes duties". Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 30 September 2012.