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Selvam Adaikalanathan
Sri Lankan Tamil militant and politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Amirthanathan Adaikalanathan (Tamil: அமிர்தநாதன் அடைக்கலநாதன், romanized: Amirtanātaṉ Aṭaikkalanātaṉ; born 10 June 1962), commonly known as Selvam Adaikalanathan, is a Sri Lankan Tamil militant turned politician and Member of Parliament.[1] He was the Deputy chairman of committees of the Parliament of Sri Lanka from September 2015 to March 2020.[2] He is the leader of the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization, a member of the Tamil National Alliance.
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Early life
Adaikalanathan was born 10 June 1962.[1] He hails from Mannar in northern Sri Lanka.[3] At the age of 15 he joined the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO), a Tamil militant group fighting for an independent state of Tamil Eelam in northern and eastern Sri Lanka.[3] He took on the nom de guerre Selvam'. Adaikalanathan took on the leadership/presidency of TELO following the killing of Sri Sabaratnam by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on 5 May 1986.[3]
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Political career
Adaikalanathan contested the 1989 parliamentary election as a ENDLF/EPRLF/TELO/TULF electoral alliance candidate in Vanni District but failed to get elected after coming 3rd amongst the alliance candidates.[4][5] He contested the 2000 parliamentary election as one of the TELO's candidates in Vanni District and was elected to the Parliament of Sri Lanka.[6]
On 20 October 2001 the All Ceylon Tamil Congress, Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front, TELO and Tamil United Liberation Front formed the Tamil National Alliance (TNA).[7][8] Adaikalanathan contested the 2001 parliamentary election as one of the TNA's candidates in Vanni District and was re-elected to Parliament.[9] He was re-elected at the 2004, 2010 and 2015 parliamentary elections.[10][11][12][13][14] He was elected Deputy chairman of committees of the Parliament of Sri Lanka when the new parliament met on 1 September 2015.[15][16]
Adaikalanathan was re-elected at the 2020 parliamentary election.[17][18][19]
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