R. B. Kadramer

Robert Bruce Kadramer (? - 1963) was a Ceylonese politician.[1]

Hon.

R. B. Kadramer
Member of the Ceylonese Parliament
for Batticaloa
In office
1952–1956
Preceded byAhamed Lebbe Sinne Lebbe
Succeeded byC. Rajadurai
Personal details
Died1963
Political partyIndependent politician
ProfessionLawyer
EthnicitySri Lankan Tamil

At the 1st parliamentary election, held between 23 August 1947 and 20 September 1947, Kadramer contested the Batticaloa electorate as an Independent. He received 2,313 votes (17% of the total votes) but lost to the United National Party candidate, Ahamed Lebbe Sinne Lebbe who polled 4,740 votes (35% of the total vote).[2]

In September 1950 the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (Federal Party) established a branch in Batticaloa, with Kadramer elected as the branch president.[3]

He ran again at the 2nd parliamentary election, held between 24 May 1952 and 30 May 1952, again as an Independent and this time was successful, obtaining 11,420 votes (59% of the total vote) defeating the sitting member, Lebbe, by 3,460 votes.[4] Kadramer, although a Tamil, publicly questioned the creation of a separate Tamil state arguing that there was no geographic contiguity between the Tamil areas of the east and north.[5][6]

In 1956, when the Federal Party competed for the first time in the electorate, Kadramer adopted the party label of the Batticaloa Tamil Speakers Front (BTSF).[7] He was unable to retain his seat at the subsequent 3rd parliamentary election, losing to the Illanki Tamil Arafura Kachi (Federal Party) candidate, C. Rajadurai, by 8,004 votes.[8]

Kadramer died in 1963.[9]

References
  1. "Hon. Kadramer, Robert Bruce, M.P." Parliament of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  2. "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1947" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  3. "Federalist Party Branch formed at Batticaloa, Colombo". Indian Daily Mail. 19 September 1950. p. 3.
  4. "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1952" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  5. Welenghama, Gnanapala; Pillay, Nimal (2014). The Rise of Tamil Separatism in Sri Lanka: From Communalism to Secession. Routledge. p. 191. ISBN 9781135119713.
  6. Wilson, A. Jeyaratnam (1988). The Break-up of Sri Lanka: The Sinhalese-Tamil Conflict. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. p. 85. ISBN 9781850650331.
  7. De Silva, G (1979). A Statistical survey of elections to the legislatures of Sri Lanka, 1911-1977. Colombo: Marga Institute. pp. 133–134.
  8. "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1956" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
  9. "Parliamentary Debates, Volume 50, Issues 1-10". Parliament of Ceylon. 1963: 255–258. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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