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

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 Arasu 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}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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