A. Thiagarajah

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Honourable
A. Thiagarajah
MP
ஆ. தியாகராஜா
Member of the Ceylonese Parliament
for Vaddukoddai
In office
1970–1977
Preceded by A. Amirthalingam
Succeeded by T. Thirunavukarasu
Personal details
Born (1916-04-17)17 April 1916
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Political party United National Party
Profession Teacher

Arumugam Thiagarajah (Tamil: ஆறுமுகம் தியாகராஜா; 17 April 1916 – 24 May 1981) was a Sri Lankan Tamil teacher, politician and Member of Parliament.

Early life

Thiagarajah was born on 17 April 1916.[1] He was principal of Karainagar Hindu College.[2][3]

Career

Thiagarajah stood as the All Ceylon Tamil Congress's candidate in Vaddukoddai at the 1970 parliamentary election. He won the election and entered Parliament.[4]He later defected to the governing Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and voted for the new republican constitution.[5][6][7] He was labelled a traitor by Tamil militants and Tamil nationalists.[8] He was the target of an assassination attempt at his Colombo home in 1972.[6] Thiagarajah contested the 1977 parliamentary election as an independent candidate but was resoundingly defeated by the Tamil United Liberation Front candidate T. Thirunavukarasu.[9]

Assassination

The United National Party chose Thiagarajah to be its lead candidate in Jaffna District at the 1981 District Development Council election.[10] Tamil militant groups had warned candidates not to contest for the UNP.[11] He was shot by the militant People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) on 24 May 1981 as he was addressing an election meeting in Moolai.[2][12] He died later in hospital.[11]

References

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