List of mayors of Jaffna
Appearance
Mayor of Jaffna | |
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யாழ்ப்பாண முதல்வர் | |
since December 2022 | |
Style | The Honourable |
Member of | Jaffna Municipal Council |
Constituting instrument | Local Government Ordinance No. 11 of 1920 |
Formation | 1 January 1923 |
First holder | A. Canagaratnam |
Deputy | Thurairajah Eesan |
Website | Jaffna Municipal Council |
The Mayor of Jaffna is the head of the Jaffna Municipal Council, the local authority for the city of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. The seat is currently vacant.
Mayors and chairmen
[edit]Name | Party | Took office | Left office | Title | Refs | |
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A. Canagaratnam | Chairman | [1][2] | ||||
R. R. Nalliah | [3] | |||||
Sam A. Sabapathy | 1937 | 1939 | [4] | |||
K. Aiyadurai | 1942 | 1943 | [5] | |||
Sam A. Sabapathy | 6 January 1949 | 31 December 1949 | Mayor | [4][6][7] | ||
Cathiravelu Ponnambalam | 6 January 1950 | 31 December 1951 | ||||
Sam A. Sabapathy | 11 January 1952 | 31 December 1954 | [4][6][7] | |||
M. A. M. M. Sultan | 5 January 1955 | 31 December 1955 | ||||
S. A. Navaratnam | 16 January 1956 | 31 December 1957 | ||||
P. Kasipillai | 6 July 1960 | 31 December 1960 | ||||
T. S. Thurairajah | 7 January 1961 | 12 February 1962 | ||||
M. Jacob | 19 February 1962 | 15 May 1963 | ||||
S. A. Tharmalingam | 28 May 1962 | 4 April 1963 | [8] | |||
P. M. John | 11 April 1963 | 6 May 1963 | ||||
T. S. Thurairajah | 15 May 1963 | 6 May 1963 | ||||
S. S. Mahadeva | 8 July 1965 | 31 December 1965 | ||||
S. Nagarajah | 8 January 1966 | 24 March 1966 | [9] | |||
Alfred Duraiappah | 15 February 1970 | 21 April 1971 | [10][11][12] | |||
Alfred Duraiappah | Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 22 April 1971 | 27 July 1975 | [10][11][12] | ||
R. Viswanathan | 1 June 1979 | 31 May 1983 | [13][14][15] | |||
Sarojini Yogeswaran | Tamil United Liberation Front | 11 March 1998 | 17 May 1998 | [16][17][18] | ||
Pon Sivapalan | Tamil United Liberation Front | 29 June 1998 | 11 September 1998 | [19][20] | ||
Nadarajah Raviraj | Tamil United Liberation Front | 9 January 2001 | 18 December 2001 | [21][22][23] | ||
Sellan Kandaiyan | Tamil United Liberation Front | 15 January 2002 | 13 February 2003 | [24][25][26] | ||
Yogeswari Patkunarajah | Eelam People's Democratic Party | 1 September 2009 | [27][28][29] | |||
E. Arnold | Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi | 26 February 2018 | [30][31][32] | |||
V. Manivannan | Tamil National People's Front | 30 December 2020 | [33] |
Notes
[edit]- ^ Arumugam 1997, p. 28.
- ^ "Stamp to honour Cathiravelu Sittampalam". Daily News. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 26 February 2004. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ "Gentleman par excellence". The Sunday Leader. 24 August 2008. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ a b c Arumugam 1997, pp. 169–170.
- ^ Arumugam 1997, p. 2.
- ^ a b Thurairajah, V. S. (12 December 2002). "Jaffna Library rises from its ruins". Daily News. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ a b Palakidnar, Ananth (5 December 2004). "No shoes please". Sunday Observer. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ Arumugam 1997, p. 229.
- ^ "Former Mayor of Jaffna passes away". TamilNet. 9 May 2008. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ a b Arumugam 1997, pp. 50–51.
- ^ a b Pethiyagoda, A. C. B. (19 October 2014). "Train Travel to Jaffna in the mid-1950s". The Island. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ a b "Masked gunmen kill Jaffna Mayor Shot dead outside temple". Daily News. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 26 May 2009. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ Rajakarunanayake, Lucien (11 January 2014). "Spotlight on Rudrakumaran and Channel 4". The Island. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ Padmasiri, Jayashika (27 May 2012). "Phoenix from the Ashes". Ceylon Today. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 17 February 2015.
- ^ Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 27: Horsewhip Amirthalingham". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story. Archived from the original on 2002-06-22.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Suryanarayana, P. S. (6 June 1998). "Pacification efforts in peril". Frontline. Vol. 15, no. 12. Chennai, India. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ "Jaffna Mayor Killed in Ambush at Home". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, U.S.A. 18 May 1998. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ "Jaffna Mayor's killing claimed". TamilNet. 18 May 1998. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ "Sri Lanka bomb kills Jaffna mayor". BBC News. London, U.K. 11 September 1998. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ "Jaffna Mayor succumbs to injuries". TamilNet. 11 September 1998. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ "Sri Lankan MP killed in Colombo". BBC News. London, U.K. 10 November 2006. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ "Tamil Parliamentarian Raviraj assassinated in Colombo". TamilNet. 10 November 2006. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ Reddy, B. Muralidhar (2 January 2008). "Tamil lawmaker's killer detained, injured in retaliatory firing". The Hindu. Chennai, India. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ "Sangaree readies to contest in Jaffna". TamilNet. 21 February 2004. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ "University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) Bulletin: The Worm Turns and Elections Where the People Will Not Count Effect on choice of candidates before the People". The Island. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 12 March 2004. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ "Long range vision on the LTTE". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). Colombo, Sri Lanka. 30 March 2003. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ "Patkunam Yogeswary appointed Mayor of JMC". TamilNet. 11 August 2009. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ "Jaffna Mayor's visit to New Delhi". Ceylon Today. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 31 May 2014. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ Palakidnar, Ananth (4 October 2009). "Light at the end of the tunnel for Jaffna - Mayoress". Sunday Observer. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ "TNA captures Jaffna Municipal Council - Arnold takes over as Mayor of Jaffna". Tamil Diplomat. 27 March 2018. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ "TNA's Emmanuel Arnold elected as Jaffna Mayor". Tamil Guardian. 26 March 2018. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
- ^ "Eemmanuel Arnold swears in as new mayor of Jaffna". Hiru News. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 26 March 2018. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
- ^ "New Mayor for Jaffna". Daily News (Sri Lanka). 31 December 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
References
[edit]- Arumugam, S. (1997). Dictionary of Biography of the Tamils of Ceylon (PDF).