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C. Rajadurai
Sri Lankan Tamil politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Chelliah Rajadurai (Tamil: செல்லையா இராசதுரை; born 27 July 1927) is a Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former government minister, Member of Parliament and Mayor of Batticaloa.
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Rajadurai was born on 27 July 1927.[1] Rajadurai was a journalist and a member of the editorial staff of the Sutantiran weekly newspaper.[2]
Rajadurai was elected to elected to Parliament at the 1956 parliamentary election as the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi's (Federal Party) candidate for Batticaloa.[3] He was re-elected at the March 1960, July 1960, 1965 and 1970 parliamentary elections.[4][5][6][7] He was the Tamil United Liberation Front candidate in Batticaloa at the 1977 parliamentary election and was re-elected.[8] In March 1979 he defected to the United National Party led government and was rewarded by being appointed Minister of Regional Development and Hindu Cultural Affairs.[9][10][11] He was later appointed Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Malaysia.[12]
Rajadurai became the first Mayor of Batticaloa in 1967.[13] He was unseated the next year.[13]
Rajadurai was still politically active in April 2012.[14] As of June 2021, Rajadurai is retired and lives between Malaysia, India and Sri Lanka.[15]
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