Sivapragasam Sivamohan (Tamil: சிவப்பிரகாசம் சிவமோகன்) is a Sri Lankan Tamil physician, politician, kallan and Member of Parliament.[1]

Career

Sivamohan contested the 2013 provincial council election as one of the Tamil National Alliance's (TNA) candidates in Mullaitivu District and was elected to the Northern Provincial Council.[2][3] After the election he was appointed to assist the Minister of Health and Indigenous Medicine on disease prevention.[4] He took his oath as provincial councillor in front of attorney-at-law K. Thayaparan at Vavuniya on 16 October 2013.[5][6]

Sivamohan was one of the TNA's candidates in Vanni District at the 2015 parliamentary election. He was elected and entered Parliament.[7][8][9]

Electoral history

Electoral history of S. Sivamohan
Election Constituency Party Votes Result
2013 provincial[3] Mullaitivu District TNA 9,296 Elected
2015 parliamentary[10] Vanni District TNA 18,412 Elected

References

  1. ^ "Directory of Members: S.Sivamohan". Parliament of Sri Lanka.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ a b "PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS 2013 ñ Results and preferential votes: Northern Province". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 26 September 2013. Archived from the original on 16 January 2014.
  4. ^ "Division of Ministries of the Northern Provincial Council & Subjects for Councillors" (PDF). TamilNet. 11 October 2013.
  5. ^ "Three more TNA elected councilors took oaths in Vavuniya". Asian Tribune. 17 October 2013.
  6. ^ "More TNA members elected to NPC take oaths today". News First. 16 October 2013. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013.
  7. ^ "PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Government Notifications PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS ACT, No. 1 OF 1981" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1928/03. 19 August 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015.
  8. ^ "Ranil tops with over 500,000 votes in Colombo". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 19 August 2015.
  9. ^ "Preferential Votes". Daily News (Sri Lanka). 19 August 2015. Archived from the original on 20 August 2015.
  10. ^ Jayakody, Pradeep (28 August 2015). "The Comparison of Preferential Votes in 2015 & 2010". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka).
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