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- ↑ "Sri Lankan Malays Fight For Parliament Representation". Colombo Telegraph. 1 March 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
- ↑ Parliaments of Ceylon . Associated Newspapers of Ceylon, 1960. p. 166
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