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- ↑ "PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS 2013 – Results and preferential votes: Northern Province". The Daily Mirror . Colombo, Sri Lanka. 26 September 2013. Archived from the original on 2 October 2013.
- ↑ "Division of Ministries of the Northern Provincial Council & Subjects for Councillors" (PDF). TamilNet . 11 October 2013.
- ↑ "Two more TNA Councilors took oaths in Colombo". Asian Tribune . 15 October 2013.
- ↑ "PART IV (A) - PROVINCIAL COUNCILS Appointments & C., by the Governors NORTHERN PROVINCE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL Appointments made by the Governor of Northern Province" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 2033/48. 24 August 2017.
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