Hon.
S. Shritharan
MP
சி. சிறீதரன்
සිවඥානම් ශ්රීධරන්
Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka
Assumed office
2010
ConstituencyJaffna District
Personal details
Born
Sivagnanam Shritharan

(1968-12-08) 8 December 1968
Political partyIllankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi
Other political
affiliations		Tamil National Alliance
Alma materUniversity of Jaffna
ProfessionTeacher
Websitewww.shritharan.com

Sivagnanam Shritharan (Tamil: சிவஞானம் சிறீதரன், romanized: Civañāṉam Ciṟītaraṉ; born 8 December 1968) is a Sri Lankan Tamil teacher, politician and Member of Parliament.[1]

Early life and family

Shritharan was born on 8 December 1968.[1] He is from Kandavalai in Kilinochchi District though he is originally from the island of Neduntivu (Delft) in Jaffna District.[2] He was educated at Jaffna Hindu College.[3] After school he joined the University of Jaffna.[4]

Shritharan is married to the sister of Brigadier Theepan (Velayuthapillai Baheerathakumarn) who was a senior military commander in the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.[2][5]

Career

Shritharan taught at several schools in Kilinochchi District and was principal of Kilinochchi Maha Vidyalayam.[2][4][6]

Shritharan contested the 2010 parliamentary election as one of the Tamil National Alliance electoral alliance's candidates in Jaffna District and was elected to the Parliament.[7][8][9] He was re-elected at the 2015 and 2020 parliamentary elections.[10][11][12][13][14]

Assassination attempt

On 7 March 2011 Shritharan was traveling in a van from Kilinochchi to Colombo to attend a meeting of Parliament the following day.[2] Traveling with Sritharan in the van were four others including a police guard.[2] At around 5.30pm the van was on the A12 highway near Nochchiyagama, Anuradhapura District, when three men standing by a white van parked on the roadside pulled out guns and started shooting at Shritharan's van.[15][16] The men also threw hand grenades at the van.[2] Sritharan's police guard fired back, forcing the attackers to flee in their white van which had no number plates.[2] No one was seriously injured in the incident.[2] Shritharan has blamed the Eelam People's Democratic Party, a government backed paramilitary group, for the assassination attempt.[2] The EPDP has been implicated in a number of assassinations.[17][18] Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa ordered an investigation into the assassination attempt.[2][19]

Electoral history

Electoral history of S. Shritharan
Election Constituency Party Alliance Votes Result
2010 parliamentary[7]Jaffna DistrictIllankai Tamil Arasu KachchiTamil National Alliance10,057Elected
2015 parliamentary[20]Jaffna DistrictIllankai Tamil Arasu KachchiTamil National Alliance72,058Elected
2020 parliamentary[21]Jaffna DistrictIllankai Tamil Arasu KachchiTamil National Alliance35,884Elected

References

  1. 1 2 "Directory of Members: Sivagnanam Shritharan". Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Sri Lanka: Parliament of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Jeyaraj, D. B. S. (12 March 2011). "Assassination attempt on TNA parliamentarian Sritharan". The Daily Mirror. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011.
  3. ↑ "Jaffna Hindu celebrated Children's Day, MP Sritharan was the chief guest". Jaffna, Sri Lanka: Jaffna Hindu College. 1 November 2012. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  4. 1 2 "TNA's Sritharan Top Scorer". Ceylon Today. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 20 August 2015. pp. A4. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015.
  5. ↑ "Bodies buried throughout Mullivaikkal – Sritharan". Ceylon Today. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Oneindia. 14 April 2012. Archived from the original on 17 April 2012.
  6. ↑ "SLA soldiers obstruct ITAK candidate from campaigning in Ki'linochchi". TamilNet. 12 March 2010. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  7. 1 2 "Parliamentary General Election - 2010 - Jaffna Preferences" (PDF). Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka: Department of Elections. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 May 2010.
  8. ↑ "General Elections 2010 -- Preferential Votes" (PDF). The Sunday Times. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 11 April 2010. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  9. ↑ "Overwhelming Tamil majority rejects elections under Sri Lankan State". TamilNet. 9 April 2010. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  10. ↑ "Part I : Section (I) — General - Government Notifications - The Parliamentary Elections Act, No. 1 of 1981" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. No. 1928/3. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 19 August 2015. p. 5A. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  11. ↑ "Ranil tops with over 500,000 votes in Colombo". The Daily Mirror. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 19 August 2015. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  12. ↑ "Part I : Section (I) — General - Government Notifications - Parliamentary Elections Act, No. 1 of 1981" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. No. 2187/26. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 8 August 2020. p. 5A. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  13. ↑ "General Election 2020: Preferential votes of Jaffna District". Ceylon Today. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 7 August 2020. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  14. ↑ Jeyaraj, D. B. S. (15 August 2020). "Did Sumanthiran Win In Jaffna By "Stealing" Sashikala's Votes?". The Daily Mirror. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  15. ↑ "TNA MP's car shot at". The Daily Mirror. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 8 March 2011. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011.
  16. ↑ "TNA MP Sritharan narrowly escapes assassination in Anuradhapura". TamilNet. 7 March 2011. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  17. ↑ "WikiLeaks: EPDP's Targeted Killing Method With Govt Military – Jaffna Government Agent Reveals Secrets". Colombo Telegraph. 17 September 2013. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  18. ↑ Vithanage, Athula (27 August 2019). "Tamils protest arrest of doctor with "expertise to expose war crimes"". Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  19. ↑ Indrajith, Saman (9 March 2011). "Speaker says will have attack on TNA MP probed". The Island. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011.
  20. ↑ Jayakody, Pradeep (28 August 2015). "The Comparison of Preferential Votes in 2015 & 2010". The Daily Mirror. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  21. ↑ "General Election Preferential Votes". Daily News. Colombo Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka. 8 August 2020. p. 2. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
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