S. Sivamohan

Hon.
S. Sivamohan
MP MPC
சி. சிவமோகன்
Member of Parliament
for Vanni District
Incumbent
Assumed office
2015
Member of the Northern Provincial Council for Mullaitivu District
In office
2013–2015
Succeeded byVallipuram Kamaleswaran
Personal details
Political partyEelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front
Other political
affiliations		Tamil National Alliance
ProfessionPhysician

Sivapragasam Sivamohan (Tamil: சிவப்பிரகாசம் சிவமோகன்) is a Sri Lankan Tamil physician, politician, kallan and Member of Parliament.[1]

Career

Sivamohan contested the 2013 provincial council election as one of the Tamil National Alliance's (TNA) candidates in Mullaitivu District and was elected to the Northern Provincial Council.[2][3] After the election he was appointed to assist the Minister of Health and Indigenous Medicine on disease prevention.[4] He took his oath as provincial councillor in front of attorney-at-law K. Thayaparan at Vavuniya on 16 October 2013.[5][6]

Sivamohan was one of the TNA's candidates in Vanni District at the 2015 parliamentary election. He was elected and entered Parliament.[7][8][9]

Electoral history

Electoral history of S. Sivamohan
Election Constituency Party Votes Result
2013 provincial[3] Mullaitivu District TNA 9,296 Elected
2015 parliamentary[10] Vanni District TNA 18,412 Elected

References

  1. ^ "Directory of Members: S.Sivamohan". Parliament of Sri Lanka.
  2. ^ "PART I : SECTION (I) ó GENERAL Government Notifications PROVINCIAL COUNCILS ELECTIONS ACT, No. 2 OF 1988 Northern Province Provincial Council" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1829/33. 25 September 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 December 2013.
  3. ^ a b "PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS 2013 ñ Results and preferential votes: Northern Province". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 26 September 2013. Archived from the original on 16 January 2014.
  4. ^ "Division of Ministries of the Northern Provincial Council & Subjects for Councillors" (PDF). TamilNet. 11 October 2013.
  5. ^ "Three more TNA elected councilors took oaths in Vavuniya". Asian Tribune. 17 October 2013.
  6. ^ "More TNA members elected to NPC take oaths today". News First. 16 October 2013. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013.
  7. ^ "PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Government Notifications PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS ACT, No. 1 OF 1981" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1928/03. 19 August 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015.
  8. ^ "Ranil tops with over 500,000 votes in Colombo". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 19 August 2015.
  9. ^ "Preferential Votes". Daily News (Sri Lanka). 19 August 2015. Archived from the original on 20 August 2015.
  10. ^ Jayakody, Pradeep (28 August 2015). "The Comparison of Preferential Votes in 2015 & 2010". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka).