S. Jeyanandamoorthy

Senathirajah Jeyanandamoorthy (born 16 September 1965) is a Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former Member of Parliament.

Hon.

S. Jeyanandamoorthy
Member of the Sri Lankan Parliament
for Batticaloa District
In office
2004–2010
Personal details
Born (1965-09-16) 16 September 1965
Political partyTamil National Alliance
ProfessionTeacher
EthnicitySri Lankan Tamil

Early life and family

Jeyanandamoorthy was born on 16 September 1965.[1]

Career

Jeyanandamoorthy had been a correspondent for Virakesari and TamilNet.[2]

Jeyanandamoorthy was selected by the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to be one of the Tamil National Alliance's (TNA) candidates in Batticaloa District at the 2004 parliamentary election.[3] He was elected and entered Parliament.[4]

Jeyanandamoorthy and his relatives were repeatedly threatened by the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal, a Sri Lankan government backed paramilitary group.[5][6][7] He subsequently fled to the United Kingdom.[8]

In May 2010 he was elected to the Transnational Constituent Assembly of Tamil Eelam.[9]

References
  1. "Directory of Past Members: Senathirajah Jeyanandamoorthy". Parliament of Sri Lanka.
  2. "Sri Lanka: 2004 Annual Report". Reporters Without Borders. 3 May 2004.
  3. Jeyaraj, D. B. S. (3 April 2010). "Tamil National Alliance enters critical third phase-2". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). Archived from the original on 16 May 2010.
  4. "General Election 2004 Preferences" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2010.
  5. "Legislators' relatives 'abducted'". BBC Sinhala. 12 December 2007.
  6. "How credibile were the Batti polls?". The Nation (Sri Lanka). 23 March 2008.
  7. "Resolution adopted unanimously by the IPU Governing Council at its 181st session". Inter-Parliamentary Union. 10 October 2007. Missing or empty |url= (help)
  8. Jeyaraj, D. B. S. (17 April 2010). "T.N.A. Performs creditably in parliamentary elections". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). Archived from the original on 28 April 2010.
  9. "Jeyananthamoorthy tops TGTE list in UK". TamilNet. 3 May 2010.


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