List of mayors of Jaffna

The Mayor of Jaffna is the head of the Jaffna Municipal Council, the local authority for the city of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. The seat is currently vacant.

Mayor of Jaffna
யாழ்ப்பாண முதல்வர்
Incumbent Vacant since December 2022
Style	The Honourable
Member of	Jaffna Municipal Council
Constituting instrument	Local Government Ordinance No. 11 of 1920
Formation	1 January 1923
First holder	A. Canagaratnam
Deputy	Thurairajah Eesan
Website	Jaffna Municipal Council

Mayors and chairmen

Mayors and chairmen

Name		Party	Took office	Left office	Title	Refs
	A. Canagaratnam				Chairman	[1][2]
	R. R. Nalliah					[3]
	Sam A. Sabapathy		1937	1939		[4]
	K. Aiyadurai		1942	1943		[5]
	Sam A. Sabapathy		6 January 1949	31 December 1949	Mayor	[4][6][7]
	Cathiravelu Ponnambalam		6 January 1950	31 December 1951
	Sam A. Sabapathy		11 January 1952	31 December 1954		[4][6][7]
	M. A. M. M. Sultan		5 January 1955	31 December 1955
	S. A. Navaratnam		16 January 1956	31 December 1957
	P. Kasipillai		6 July 1960	31 December 1960
	T. S. Thurairajah		7 January 1961	12 February 1962
	M. Jacob		19 February 1962	15 May 1963
	S. A. Tharmalingam		28 May 1962	4 April 1963		[8]
	P. M. John		11 April 1963	6 May 1963
	T. S. Thurairajah		15 May 1963	6 May 1963
	S. S. Mahadeva		8 July 1965	31 December 1965
	S. Nagarajah		8 January 1966	24 March 1966		[9]
	Alfred Duraiappah		15 February 1970	21 April 1971		[10][11][12]
	Alfred Duraiappah	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	22 April 1971	27 July 1975		[10][11][12]
	R. Viswanathan		1 June 1979	31 May 1983		[13][14][15]
	Sarojini Yogeswaran	Tamil United Liberation Front	11 March 1998	17 May 1998		[16][17][18]
	Pon Sivapalan	Tamil United Liberation Front	29 June 1998	11 September 1998		[19][20]
	Nadarajah Raviraj	Tamil United Liberation Front	9 January 2001	18 December 2001		[21][22][23]
	Sellan Kandaiyan	Tamil United Liberation Front	15 January 2002	13 February 2003		[24][25][26]
	Yogeswari Patkunarajah	Eelam People's Democratic Party	1 September 2009			[27][28][29]
	E. Arnold	Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi	26 February 2018			[30][31][32]
	V. Manivannan	Tamil National People's Front	30 December 2020		[33]

Notes

1. Arumugam 1997, p. 28.
2. "Stamp to honour Cathiravelu Sittampalam". Daily News. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 26 February 2004. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
3. "Gentleman par excellence". The Sunday Leader. 24 August 2008. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
4. Arumugam 1997, pp. 169–170.
5. Arumugam 1997, p. 2.
6. Thurairajah, V. S. (12 December 2002). "Jaffna Library rises from its ruins". Daily News. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
7. Palakidnar, Ananth (5 December 2004). "No shoes please". Sunday Observer. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
8. Arumugam 1997, p. 229.
9. "Former Mayor of Jaffna passes away". TamilNet. 9 May 2008. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
10. Arumugam 1997, pp. 50–51.
11. Pethiyagoda, A. C. B. (19 October 2014). "Train Travel to Jaffna in the mid-1950s". The Island. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
12. "Masked gunmen kill Jaffna Mayor Shot dead outside temple". Daily News. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 26 May 2009. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
13. Rajakarunanayake, Lucien (11 January 2014). "Spotlight on Rudrakumaran and Channel 4". The Island. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
14. Padmasiri, Jayashika (27 May 2012). "Phoenix from the Ashes". Ceylon Today. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 17 February 2015.
15. Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 27: Horsewhip Amirthalingham". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story. Archived from the original on 2002-06-22.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
16. Suryanarayana, P. S. (6 June 1998). "Pacification efforts in peril". Frontline. Vol. 15, no. 12. Chennai, India. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
17. "Jaffna Mayor Killed in Ambush at Home". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, U.S.A. 18 May 1998. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
18. "Jaffna Mayor's killing claimed". TamilNet. 18 May 1998. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
19. "Sri Lanka bomb kills Jaffna mayor". BBC News. London, U.K. 11 September 1998. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
20. "Jaffna Mayor succumbs to injuries". TamilNet. 11 September 1998. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
21. "Sri Lankan MP killed in Colombo". BBC News. London, U.K. 10 November 2006. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
22. "Tamil Parliamentarian Raviraj assassinated in Colombo". TamilNet. 10 November 2006. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
23. Reddy, B. Muralidhar (2 January 2008). "Tamil lawmaker's killer detained, injured in retaliatory firing". The Hindu. Chennai, India. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
24. "Sangaree readies to contest in Jaffna". TamilNet. 21 February 2004. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
25. "University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) Bulletin: The Worm Turns and Elections Where the People Will Not Count Effect on choice of candidates before the People". The Island. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 12 March 2004. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
26. "Long range vision on the LTTE". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). Colombo, Sri Lanka. 30 March 2003. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
27. "Patkunam Yogeswary appointed Mayor of JMC". TamilNet. 11 August 2009. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
28. "Jaffna Mayor's visit to New Delhi". Ceylon Today. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 31 May 2014. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
29. Palakidnar, Ananth (4 October 2009). "Light at the end of the tunnel for Jaffna - Mayoress". Sunday Observer. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
30. "TNA captures Jaffna Municipal Council - Arnold takes over as Mayor of Jaffna". Tamil Diplomat. 27 March 2018. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
31. "TNA's Emmanuel Arnold elected as Jaffna Mayor". Tamil Guardian. 26 March 2018. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
32. "Eemmanuel Arnold swears in as new mayor of Jaffna". Hiru News. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 26 March 2018. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
33. "New Mayor for Jaffna". Daily News (Sri Lanka). 31 December 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2021.

References

• Arumugam, S. (1997). Dictionary of Biography of the Tamils of Ceylon (PDF).

Sources

• "Former Mayors". Jaffna Municipal Council.