G. Gunaseelan

Gnanaseelan Gunaseelan is a Sri Lankan Tamil physician, politician and provincial minister.

Honourable G. Gunaseelan MPC
Minister of Health and Indigenous Medicine and Probation and Childcare Services, Northern Province
Incumbent
Assumed office 23 August 2017
Preceded by	P. Sathiyalingam
Member of the Northern Provincial Council for Mannar District
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 October 2013
Personal details
Political party	Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization
Other political affiliations	Tamil National Alliance
Profession	Physician
Ethnicity	Sri Lankan Tamil

Gunaseelan was Medical Officer of Health (MOH) for Manthai West and Madhu.^[1]

Gunaseelan contested the 2013 provincial council election as one of the Tamil National Alliance's candidates in Mannar 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 food supply.^[4] He took his oath as provincial councillor in front of Chief Minister C. V. Vigneswaran at his residence in Colombo on 14 October 2013.^[5]

Sarveswaran was sworn in as Minister of Health and Indigenous Medicine and Probation and Childcare Services in front of Governor Reginald Cooray on 23 August 2017.^[6][7][8]

References

1. "Contact Directory Northern Province" (PDF). United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. 18 September 2013. p. 94. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
2. "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. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 25 September 2013.
3. "PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS 2013 – Results and preferential votes: Northern Province". The Daily Mirror. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 26 September 2013. Archived from the original on 2 October 2013.
4. "Division of Ministries of the Northern Provincial Council & Subjects for Councillors" (PDF). TamilNet. 11 October 2013.
5. "Two more TNA Councilors took oaths in Colombo". Asian Tribune. 15 October 2013.
6. "PART IV (A) - PROVINCIAL COUNCILS Appointments & C., by the Governors NORTHERN PROVINCE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL Appointments made by the Governor of Northern Province" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 2033/48. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 24 August 2017.
7. "New Northern Province Ministers appointed". Daily FT. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 24 August 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
8. Dias, Keshala (23 August 2017). "Two Northern Provincial Councillors sworn in as NPC ministers". News First. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 27 August 2017.