Nalliah Kumaraguruparan

Nalliah Kumaraguruparan
Born May 11, 1958
Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Occupation Chartered Business Administrator
Politician
Religion Hindu
Spouse(s) Rathy Mahalingasivam
Children N.K.Ashokbharan
K.Ahranyakumari
K.Abishekbaren
Website
Kumaraguruparan's Web

Nalliah Kumaraguruparan (Tamil: நல்லையா குமரகுருபரன்)(Sinhalese: නල්ලය්යා කුමරගුරුපරන්)is a Sri Lankan politician, ex.member of Colombo Municipal Council, currently an elected member of the Western Provincial Council of Sri Lanka & the current Deputy Leader & General Secretary of the Western People's Front, a political party in Sri Lanka, Former General Secretary of All Ceylon Tamil Congress, one of the oldest political parties of SriLanka and presently a member of the All Party Representatives Committee of SriLanka.[1]

Personal life

He is a son of late Mr.Nalliah a Chartered Accountant & late Mrs. Sakuntala Nalliah (Daughter of late Tambiah Mudaliyar Sabaratnam (T M Sabaratnam) - Former Member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon). He gained his primary education at Vaitheeswara College & His Secondary & Higher Education at Jaffna Hindu College. He completed his Diploma in Accountancy in India at ITI on scholarship and Computer Education at the Hindustan Institute of Engineering Technology and then qualified into various professional studies including BComm(Fin.Mgt) and other. And presently he is a Chartered Business Administrator by profession.

He is married to Rathee Mahalingasivam, and has three children. Elder son is Ashokbharan Nalliah Kumaraguruparan (Student - Royal College Colombo - Law Student Northumbria University), Youngest son is Abishekbaren Kumaraguruparan (Student - Royal College Colombo), and Daughter is Ahranyakumari Kumaraguruparan (Student - Ladies College, Colombo).

Political career

He first entered into politics through All Ceylon Tamil Congress at the age of 17 in Jaffna. His grandfather T. M. Sabaratnam was a founder member of All Ceylon Tamil Congress and a former Member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon. Involved in active politics with All Ceylon Tamil Congress later Kumaraguruparan became the Colombo Branch Secretary & then the Official Spokesman of All Ceylon Tamil Congress and contested all the Parliamentary elections from 1989. After the demise of Late."Maamanithar"Kumar Ponnambalam he was appointed as the General Secretary (Leader) of the Party in the year 2000. In 2003 after amany inner-party conflicts he was appointed as a Senior Vice President by Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam. Then in 2004 he resigned from All Ceylon Tamil Congress and joined Western People's Front(currently known as Democratic People's Front) a political party led by Mano Ganesan at a ceremony convened by Western People's Front at Nippon Hotel. He was appointed as Deputy Leader of the Western People's Front in 2004 and then in 2006 He was also given the post of General Secretary of the party. In the 2006 "Colombo Municipal Elections" he was elected to the Council. In 2009 Western Provincial Council Elections he contested from the Colombo District in the United National Front (An Alliance of UNP & Supporting Parties) and was elected to the Western Provincial Council.[2][3] In 2013 He was appointed as the Deputy Leader of the Democratic Peoples' Front.

In 2014 January he left the Democratic Peoples' Front after a conflict about the party's policies and later that year formed the Democratic National Front with other members who also left Democratic Peoples' Front. Kumaraguruparan was elected as the leader of the Democratic National Front. In 2015, a new alliance was formed consisting of three parties in Colombo under the banner of Democratic Peoples' Congress. Democratic National Front became a part of the new alliance and Kumaraguruparan was elected as the Leader of the new alliance: Democratic Peoples' Congress.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "WPF denies it endorses APRC report". Eelam Nation. [Eelam Nation]. 2008-01-26. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
  2. ↑ "Ganesan seeks LTTE backing". Asia Tribune News. December 31, 2003. Retrieved 2008-03-02.
  3. ↑ "New ACTC leader says no compromise on Tamil issue". Tamil Canadian. January 19, 2000. Retrieved 2008-03-02.

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