T. Kurukularajah

Honourable
T. Kurukularajah
MPC
தி. குருகுலராஜா
Minister of Education, Cultural Affairs and Sports, Northern Province
Incumbent
Assumed office
11 October 2013
Member of the Northern Provincial Council for Kilinochchi District
Incumbent
Assumed office
11 October 2013
Personal details
Political party Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi
Other political
affiliations		 Tamil National Alliance
Profession Civil servant
Ethnicity Sri Lankan Tamil

Thambirajah Kurukularajah (Tamil: தம்பிராசா குருகுலராஜா) is a Sri Lankan Tamil civil servant, politician and provincial minister.

Kurukularajah is the son of Rev. A. C. Thambirajah, a protestant pastor and founder of the Navajeevanam project in Paranthan.[1] Kurukularajah was director of education for the Kilinochchi Education Zone.[2][3]

Kurukularajah contested the 2013 provincial council election as one of the Tamil National Alliance's candidates in Kilinochchi District and was elected to the Northern Provincial Council.[4][5] After the election he was appointed Minister of Education, Cultural Affairs and Sports.[6][7] He took his oath as minister and provincial councillor in front of Chief Minister C. V. Vigneswaran at Veerasingam Hall on 11 October 2013.[8][9]

References

  1. ↑ Jeyaraj, D. B. S. (5 October 2013). "TNA's Tussle Over Provincial Ministry Posts in North". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka).
  2. ↑ "Monsoon rains imminent; Govt. officials struggle with refugees". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 12 October 2008.
  3. ↑ "26,000 students displaced". BBC Sinhala. 12 October 2008.
  4. ↑ "PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Government Notifications PROVINCIAL COUNCILS ELECTIONS ACT, No. 2 OF 1988 Northern Province Provincial Council". The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1829/33. 25 September 2013.
  5. ↑ "PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS 2013 – Results and preferential votes: Northern Province". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 26 September 2013.
  6. ↑ "ITAK announces NPC ministers, EPRLF challenges". TamilNet. 10 October 2013.
  7. ↑ "Sri Lanka's first Tamil CM announces Cabinet". The New Indian Express/Press Trust of India. 10 October 2013.
  8. ↑ "NPC members take oath in Jaffna after honouring fallen Tamil Heroes". TamilNet. 11 October 2013.
  9. ↑ "Northern Provincial Council TNA members take oaths". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 11 October 2013.