Perumal Rajadurai

Sundaram Perumal Rajadurai (born 26 March 1967) is a Sri Lankan attorney-at-law, politician and former Member of Parliament.

Hon.

Perumal Rajadurai

MP
Member of the Sri Lankan Parliament
for Nuwara Eliya District
In office
2010–2015
Personal details
Born (1967-03-26) 26 March 1967
Political partyUnited National Party
Other political
affiliations		United National Front for Good Governance
OccupationAttorney-at-law
EthnicityIndian Tamil

Early life and family

Rajadurai was born on 26 March 1967.[1] His family were estate workers at the Rockland estate in Udapussellawa.[2] He studied at Suriyagaha Pathana Tamil Vidyalayam and Ragala Tamil Vidyalayam.[3]

Career

Rajadurai is an attorney-at-law, acting magistrate and president of the Nuwara Eliya Rotary Club.[2][3]

Rajadurai contested the 2010 parliamentary election as one of the United People's Freedom Alliance's (UPFA) candidates in Nuwara Eliya District. He was elected and entered Parliament.[4][5] On 8 August 2013 Rajadurai left the Ceylon Workers' Congress to sit as an independent MP supporting UPFA.[6][7] He joined the National Union of Workers as its deputy leader on 18 August 2013.[8]

Rajadurai resigned from the UPFA on 21 November 2014 to support common opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena at the presidential election.[9][10] He joined the United National Party (UNP) on 25 November 2014.[11] He was appointed the UNP organizer for Nuwara Eliya.[12] He failed to get re-elected at the 2015 parliamentary election after coming eighth amongst the United National Front for Good Governance candidates.[13]

Electoral history
Electoral history of Perumal Rajadurai
Election Constituency Party Votes Result
2010 parliamentary[4]Nuwara Eliya DistrictUPFA49,228Elected
2015 parliamentary[13]Nuwara Eliya DistrictUNFGG28,992Not elected
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References
  1. "Directory of Members: Perumal Rajathurai". Parliament of Sri Lanka.
  2. Jeyaraj, D. B. S. (23 April 2010). "Decline of Tamil representation outside the North and East". dbsjeyaraj.com.
  3. "New faces in Parliament" (PDF). The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 18 April 2010.
  4. "Parliamentary General Election - 2010 Nuwara Eliya Preferences" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 May 2010. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
  5. "General Elections 2010 - Preferential Votes" (PDF). The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 11 April 2010.
  6. "CWC MP resigns from party". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 8 August 2013.
  7. "MP Rajadurai resigns from CWC". The Nation (Sri Lanka). 8 August 2013. Archived from the original on 13 December 2014. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
  8. "Rajathurai joins NUW". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 19 August 2013.
  9. "CWC MP quits UPFA, joins UNP". Daily FT. 26 November 2014. Archived from the original on 13 December 2014. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
  10. Jabbar, Zacki (22 November 2014). "UPFA MP Perumal Rajathurai defects to UNP". The Island (Sri Lanka).
  11. Borham, Maneshka (25 November 2014). "UPFA MP crosses over". The Nation (Sri Lanka). Archived from the original on 27 November 2014.
  12. "No Maithri for Mahinda". Daily FT. 22 November 2014. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014.
  13. "Ranil tops with over 500,000 votes in Colombo". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 19 August 2015.
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