K. T. Linganathan

Kanthar Thamotharampillai Linganathan (Tamil: கந்தர் தாமோதரம்பிள்ளை லிங்கநாதன்) is a Sri Lankan Tamil politician and provincial councillor.

Honourable K. T. Linganathan MPC
க. தா. லிங்கநாதன்
Member of the Northern Provincial Council for Vavuniya District
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 October 2013
Member of Vavuniya Urban Council
In office 2009–2011
Succeeded by	Suwampillai Thevakingsly Rajeswaran
Personal details
Political party	People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam
Other political affiliations	Tamil National Alliance
Ethnicity	Sri Lankan Tamil

Linganathan was chairman of Vavuniya Urban Council in the late 1990s.^[1][2] He was re-elected to the council at the 2009 local government election but his party, the Democratic People's Liberation Front, the political wing of the People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam, lost control of the council to the Tamil National Alliance (TNA).^[3] Linganathan became leader of the opposition.^[4] He resigned from the council in 2011.^[5]

Linganathan contested the 2013 provincial council election as one of the TNA's candidates in Vavuniya District and was elected to the Northern Provincial Council.^[6][7] After the election he was appointed to assist the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Irrigation and Environment on agricultural services.^[8] He took his oath as provincial councillor in front of PLOTE Secretary and All Island Justice Peace Subramanian Sathananthan at Chunnakam on 14 October 2013.^[9][10]

References

1. "Vavuniya MP's funeral held". TamilNet. 19 July 1998.
2. "Army Chief opens door to refugees". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 1 June 1997.
3. "Local Authorities Election 2009 Final Results Vavuniya Urban Council - Preferences" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 December 2009. Retrieved 19 August 2009.
4. Vivekarasa, T. (31 July 2010). "Majority of Vavuniya UC members oppose administration". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). Archived from the original on 4 November 2013. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
5. "PART IV (B) - LOCAL GOVERNMENT Notices under the Local Authorities Elections Ordinance FILLING OF A VACANCY IN THE OFFICE OF A MEMBER OF THE VAVUNIYA URBAN COUNCIL UNDER SECTION 65A(2) OF THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES ELECTIONS ORDINANCE (CHAPTER 262)" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka . 1722/28. 10 September 2011.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
6. "PART I : SECTION (I) ó 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.
7. "PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS 2013 ñ Results and preferential votes: Northern Province". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 26 September 2013. Archived from the original on 16 January 2014.
8. "Division of Ministries of the Northern Provincial Council & Subjects for Councillors" (PDF). TamilNet. 11 October 2013.
9. Kapilnath, Navaratnam (14 October 2013). "Sivajilingam, Sidharthan sworn in separately". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka).
10. "Two Elected Councilors From PLOTE Took Oaths In Chunnakam". Asian Tribune. 14 October 2013.