Perumal Rajadurai

Hon.
Perumal Rajadurai
MP
Member of Parliament
for Nuwara Eliya District
In office
2010–2015
Personal details
Born (1967-03-26) 26 March 1967 (age 57)
Political partyUnited National Party
Other political
affiliations		United National Front for Good Governance
OccupationAttorney-at-law

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

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 District UPFA 49,228 Elected
2015 parliamentary[13] Nuwara Eliya District UNFGG 28,992 Not elected

References

  1. ^ "Directory of Members: Perumal Rajathurai". Parliament of Sri Lanka.
  2. ^ a b Jeyaraj, D. B. S. (23 April 2010). "Decline of Tamil representation outside the North and East". dbsjeyaraj.com.
  3. ^ a b "New faces in Parliament" (PDF). The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 18 April 2010.
  4. ^ a b "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. ^ a b "Ranil tops with over 500,000 votes in Colombo". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 19 August 2015.