Pathmini Sithamparanathan (; born 26 July 1954) is a

Sri Lankan Tamil Sri Lankan Tamils ( or ), also known as Ceylon Tamils or Eelam Tamils, are Tamils native to the South Asian island state of Sri Lanka. Today, they constitute a majority in the Northern Province, form the plurality in the Eastern Province a ...

politician and former member of parliament.

Early life

Sithamparanathan was born on 26 July 1954.

Career

Sithamparanathan was selected by the

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Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE; , ; also known as the Tamil Tigers) was a Tamil militant organization, that was based in the northern and eastern Sri Lanka. The LTTE fought to create an independent Tamil state called Tamil Eela ...

(LTTE) to be one of the

Tamil National Alliance The Tamil National Alliance (TNA; ISO 15919: ''tamiḻt tēciyakkūṭṭamaippu'') was a political alliance in Sri Lanka which represented the Sri Lankan Tamil minority of the country. It was formed in October 2001 by a group of moderate T ...

's (TNA) candidates in

Jaffna District Jaffna District ( ''Yāḻppāṇam Māvaṭṭam''; ''yāpanaya distrikkaya'') is one of the 25 districts of Sri Lanka, the second level administrative division of the country. The district is administered by a District Secretariat headed by a ...

at the 2004 parliamentary election. She was elected and entered

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. In March 2010 Sithamparanathan, along with fellow TNA MPs

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and S. Kajendran, left the TNA and formed the

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(TNPF). Sithamparanathan contested the 2010 parliamentary election as one of the TNPF's candidates in Jaffna District but the TNPF failed to win any seats in Parliament. In February 2011 Sithamparanathan became one of the vice-presidents of the TNPF. She contested the 2015 parliamentary election as one of the TNPF's candidates in Jaffna District but again the TNPF failed to win any seats in Parliament.

Electoral history

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sithamparanathan, Pathmini 1954 births 21st-century Sri Lankan women politicians Living people Members of the 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka Politicians from Northern Province, Sri Lanka Sri Lankan Hindus Tamil politicians Sri Lankan Tamil women Sri Lankan Tamil people Tamil National Alliance politicians Women legislators in Sri Lanka