Kanthar Nallathamby Srikantha is a
Sri Lankan Tamil
Sri Lankan Tamils ( or ), also known as Ceylon Tamils or Eelam Tamils, are Tamils native to the South Asian island state of Sri Lanka. Today, they constitute a majority in the Northern Province, live in significant numbers in the Eastern Pr ...
lawyer, politician and former Member of Parliament.
Career
Srikantha is an
attorney-at-law. He is a member of
Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization
The Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO) is an Eelam Tamil organisation which campaigned for the establishment of an independent Tamil Eelam in the northeast of Sri Lanka during 1972-1987 which later accepted the December 19th proposals. T ...
(TELO) and entered politics in the mid 1980s.
Srikantha was one of the
ENDLF/
EPRLF/TELO/
TULF alliance's candidates in
Jaffna District at the
1989 parliamentary election but failed to get elected after coming eighth amongst the alliance candidates.
On 20 October 2001 the
All Ceylon Tamil Congress
All Ceylon Tamil Congress ( ta, அகில இலங்கைத் தமிழ்க் காங்கிரஸ்), is the oldest Tamil political party in Sri Lanka.
History
The ACTC was founded in 1944 by G.G. Ponnambalam. Ponnambalam ask ...
,
Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front
The Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) is a series of Sri Lankan political parties and a former militant separatist group.
Militant separatists
The EPRLF was formed in 1980 by K. Pathmanabha (Padmanaba), Douglas Devananda, Su ...
, TELO and
Tamil United Liberation Front formed the
Tamil National Alliance (TNA). Srikantha was one of the TNA's candidates in
Trincomalee District
Trincomalee District ( ta, திருக்கோணமலை மாவட்டம் ''Tirukōṇamalai Māvaṭṭam;'' si, ත්රිකුණාමළය දිස්ත්රික්කය ''Trikuṇāmalaya distrikkaya'') is one ...
at the
2001 parliamentary election but failed to get re-elected. He was one of the TNA's candidates in Jaffna District at the
2004 parliamentary election but again failed to get re-elected, coming ninth amongst the TNA candidates.
However, he entered
Parliament in 2006 following the assassination of
Nadarajah Raviraj
Nadarajah Raviraj ( ta, நடராஜா ரவிராஜ், translit=naṭarājā ravirāj, ; 25 June 1962 – 10 November 2006) was a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician. He was Mayor of Jaffna in 2001 and a Member of Parliament for J ...
on 10 November 2006.
In 2010 Srikantha left TELO and TNA. He subsequently formed the
Tamil National Liberation Alliance (TNLA) with other dissident members of the TNA. Srikantha was one of the
LLF/TNLA alliance's candidates in Jaffna District at the
2010 parliamentary election but the alliance failed to win any seats in Parliament. In June 2011 TNLA was dissolved and Srikantha rejoined TELO and TNA.
Srikantha contested the
2015 parliamentary election as one of the TNA's candidates in Jaffna District but failed get re-elected.
Electoral history
References
External links
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Living people
Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka
People from Northern Province, Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan Hindus
Sri Lankan Tamil lawyers
Sri Lankan Tamil politicians
Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization politicians
Tamil National Alliance politicians
Year of birth missing (living people)