Sri Lankan Tamil politician and Member of Parliament
Chinnaiah Arulampalam (Tamil : சின்னையா அருளம்பலம் ; 18 February 1909 – 5 March 1997) was a Sri Lankan Tamil politician and Member of Parliament .
Early life
Arulampalam was born on 18 February 1909.[ 1]
Career
Arulampalam stood as the All Ceylon Tamil Congress ' candidate in Kopay at the 1952 and 1956 parliamentary elections but on each occasion was defeated by the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (Federal Party) candidate C. Vanniasingam .[ 2] [ 3]
Arulampalam stood as the ACTC's candidate in Nallur at the March 1960 , July 1960 and 1965 parliamentary elections but on each occasion was defeated by the ITAK candidate E. M. V. Naganathan .[ 4] [ 5] [ 6] He stood again at the 1970 parliamentary election , and on this occasion he won and entered Parliament .[ 7] He later defected to the governing Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and voted for the new republican constitution .[ 8] [ 9] He was labelled a traitor by Tamil militants and Tamil nationalists .[ 10] [ 11] The SLFP government rewarded Arulampalam by making him Deputy Chairman of Committees in 1976.[ 12]
Arulampalam contested the 1977 parliamentary election as the SLFP candidate in Nallur but was resoundingly defeated by the Tamil United Liberation Front candidate M. Sivasithamparam .[ 13]
Arulampalam died on 5 March 1997 in Solano County, California , USA.[ 14]
References
^ "Directory of Past Members: Arulampalam, Chinnaiah" . Parliament of Sri Lanka .
^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1952" (PDF) . Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015.
^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1956" (PDF) . Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015.
^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1960-03-19" (PDF) . Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 July 2015.
^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1960-07-20" (PDF) . Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015.
^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1965" (PDF) . Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 July 2015.
^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1970" (PDF) . Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 December 2009.
^ Jeyaraj, D. B. S. (15 June 2008). "Last TULF Leader standing: Sangaree at 75" . The Nation (Sri Lanka) . Archived from the original on 20 February 2014.
^ Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 23: Srimavo's constitutional promiscuity". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story . Archived from the original on 13 February 2002. {{cite book }}
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^ Sabaratnam, T. "Chapter 5: Tamil Youths Turn Assertive". Pirapaharan .
^ Sri Kantha, Sachi (26 July 2010). "The Alfred Duraiappah Dossier - Part 1" . Illankai Tamil Sangam.
^ "Deputy Chairman of Committees" . Parliament of Sri Lanka .
^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1977" (PDF) . Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 July 2011.
^ "California, Death Record Index, 1940–1997 : Chinnaiah Arulampalam" . Mocavo . Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2015 .