T. Raviharan

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T. Raviharan
MPC
Member of the Northern Provincial Council for Mullaitivu District
Assumed office
14 October 2013
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Nationality Sri Lankan
Political party Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front
Other political
affiliations		 Tamil National Alliance
Ethnicity Sri Lankan Tamil

Arumugam Sinnaththurai Thurairajah Raviharan is a Sri Lankan Tamil politician and provincial councillor.

Raviharan contested the 2013 provincial council election as one of the Tamil National Alliance's candidates in Mullaitivu District and was elected to the Northern Provincial Council. [1] [2] After the election he was appointed to assist the Minister of Fisheries, Transport, Trade and Rural Development on fisheries. [3] He took his oath as provincial councillor in front of Chief Minister C. V. Vigneswaran at his residence in Colombo on 14 October 2013. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "PART I : SECTION (I) ó GENERAL Government Notifications PROVINCIAL COUNCILS ELECTIONS ACT, No. 2 OF 1988 Northern Province Provincial Council" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1829/33. 25 September 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 December 2013.
  2. ↑ "PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS 2013 ñ Results and preferential votes: Northern Province". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka) . 26 September 2013.
  3. ↑ "Division of Ministries of the Northern Provincial Council & Subjects for Councillors" (PDF). TamilNet . 11 October 2013.
  4. ↑ "Two more TNA Councilors took oaths in Colombo". Asian Tribune . 15 October 2013. Retrieved 13 July 2020.


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