P. Sathiyalingam
Honourable P. Sathiyalingam MPC | |
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பி. சத்தியலிங்கம் | |
Minister of Health and Indigenous Medicine, Northern Province | |
Assumed office 11 October 2013 | |
Member of the Northern Provincial Council for Vavuniya District | |
Assumed office 11 October 2013 | |
Personal details | |
Political party | Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi |
Other political affiliations | Tamil National Alliance |
Profession | Physician |
Ethnicity | Sri Lankan Tamil |
Pathmanathan Sathiyalingam (Tamil: பத்மநாதன் சத்தியலிங்கம்) is a Sri Lankan Tamil physician, politician and provincial minister.
Sathiyalingam is the son of S. Pathmanathan, a communist who contested the 1970 parliamentary election in Vavuniya.[1] Sathiyalingam was Medical Officer of Health (MOH) for Vavuniya.[2][3][4] He is chairman of the Vavuniya branch of the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society.[5][6]
Pathmanathan contested the 2013 provincial council election as one of the Tamil National Alliance's candidates in Vavuniya District and was elected to the Northern Provincial Council.[7][8] After the election he was appointed Minister of Health and Indigenous Medicine.[9][10] He took his oath as minister and provincial councillor in front of Chief Minister C. V. Vigneswaran at Veerasingam Hall on 11 October 2013.[11][12]
References
- ↑ Jeyaraj, D. B. S. (5 October 2013). "TNA's Tussle Over Provincial Ministry Posts in North". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka).
- ↑ Jayasuriya, Srinath Prasanna (24 September 2003). "Get back: LTTE orders striking health workers in North East". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka).
- ↑ "District Tobacco Control Cell – Vavuniya". Regional Director of Health Services - Vavuniya.
- ↑ "Tamil Civil Society Memo to the TNA regarding the Eastern Provincial Council Elections". Tamil Guardian. 29 July 2012.
- ↑ "Sri Lanka Red Cross Regional Operation and Coordinating Office ( ROCO) opened in Vavuniya". Sri Lanka Red Cross Society.
- ↑ "Contact Directory Northern Province" (PDF). United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. 18 September 2013. p. 157.
- ↑ "PART I : SECTION (I) — 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.
- ↑ "PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS 2013 – Results and preferential votes: Northern Province". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 26 September 2013.
- ↑ "ITAK announces NPC ministers, EPRLF challenges". TamilNet. 10 October 2013.
- ↑ "Sri Lanka's first Tamil CM announces Cabinet". The New Indian Express/Press Trust of India. 10 October 2013.
- ↑ "NPC members take oath in Jaffna after honouring fallen Tamil Heroes". TamilNet. 11 October 2013.
- ↑ "Northern Provincial Council TNA members take oaths". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 11 October 2013.
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