C. V. K. Sivagnanam

C. Velupillai Kandaiah Sivagnanam (Tamil: சி. வேலுப்பிள்ளை கந்தையா சிவஞானம் ; Sinhala: සී.වී.කේ. සිවඥානම්) is a Sri Lankan Tamil civil servant, politician and provincial councillor.

Honourable C. V. K. Sivagnanam MPC
சி. வீ. கே. சிவஞானம் සී.වී.කේ. සිවඥානම්
Sivagnanam in March 2015
Chairman of the Northern Provincial Council
Incumbent
Assumed office 25 October 2013
Member of the Northern Provincial Council for Jaffna District
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 October 2013
Personal details
Nationality	Sri Lankan
Political party	Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi
Other political affiliations	Tamil National Alliance
Profession	Civil servant
Ethnicity	Sri Lankan Tamil

Sivagnanam was commissioner of Jaffna Municipal Council. After retirement, he contested the 2004 and 2010 parliamentary elections as one of the Tamil National Alliance's candidates in Jaffna District but on each occasion failed to get elected.^[1][2]

Sivagnanam contested the 2013 provincial council election as one of the Tamil National Alliance's candidates in Jaffna District and was elected to the Northern Provincial Council.^[3][4] He took his oath as provincial councillor in front of Chief Minister C. V. Vigneswaran at Veerasingam Hall on 11 October 2013.^[5][6] He was elected unopposed as Chairman of the Northern Provincial Council at its inaugural meeting on 25 October 2013.^[7][8][9]

References

1. "General Election 2004 Preferences" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2010.
2. "Parliamentary General Election - 2010 Jaffna Preferences" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 May 2010.
3. "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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 December 2013.
4. "PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS 2013 – Results and preferential votes: Northern Province". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 26 September 2013.
5. "NPC members take oath in Jaffna after honouring fallen Tamil Heroes". TamilNet. 11 October 2013.
6. "Northern Provincial Council TNA members take oaths". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 11 October 2013. Archived from the original on 14 October 2013.
7. "Inaugural Session of Northern Provincial Council held at Kaithady". Northern Provincial Council. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
8. Palakidnar, Ananth (26 October 2013). "Chandrasiri must go". Ceylon Today. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013.
9. "New Chairman of NPC". The Island (Sri Lanka). 26 October 2013.