Former MP Mavai Senathirajah passes away

Thursday, 30 January 2025 00:06 –      – 18

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Former MP

Mavai Senathirajah

Former Parliamentarian and Senior Leader of the Illankai Tamil Arasu Katchchi (ITAK) Mavai Senathirajah has passed away at the age of 82.

He passed away yesterday whilst being treated over an illness at the Jaffna Hospital.

The veteran Tamil politician was admitted to the Emergency Treatment Unit (ETU) of the Jaffna Teaching Hospital due to an accident that occurred at his home.

A former MP, Senathirajah was the leader of the ITAK from 2014 to 2024, the main constituent party of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA).

He joined the youth wing of ITAK, the Tamil Youth League, in 1962 and became Secretary of the Tamil Youth Front, the youth wing of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF), in 1972.

He entered Parliament in 1989 when he was appointed as a National List Member of Parliament for the TULF, and re-entered Parliament in 1999 as a National List Member of Parliament for the TULF.

Senathirajah was one of the TULF’s candidates in the Jaffna district at the 2000 Parliamentary Election. He was elected and re-entered Parliament. On 20 October 2001, the All Ceylon Tamil Congress, Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front, Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation, and TULF formed the TNA.

Senathirajah contested the 2001 Parliamentary Election as one of the TNA’s candidates in the Jaffna district. He was elected and re-entered Parliament, and was also re-elected at the 2004, 2010, and 2015 Parliamentary Elections.

Senathirajah was General-Secretary of ITAK before being elected Leader of ITAK in September 2014.

 

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