A. Vinayagamoorthy | |
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அ. விநாயகமூர்த்தி | |
| Member of Parliament forJaffna District | |
| In office 8 April 2010 – 26 June 2015 | |
| In office 10 October 2000 – 7 February 2004 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1933-12-19)19 December 1933 |
| Died | 28 May 2017(2017-05-28) (aged 83) |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Party | Tamil National Alliance |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Ethnicity | Sri Lankan Tamil |
Appathurai Vinayagamoorthy (Tamil:அப்பாத்துரை விநாயகமூர்த்தி; 19 December 1933 – 28 May 2017)[1] was aSri Lankan Tamil lawyer, politician and Member of Parliament. He was leader and president of theAll Ceylon Tamil Congress.
Vinayagamoorthy was born on 19 December 1933.[2]
Vinayagamoorthy was a long-standing member of theAll Ceylon Tamil Congress (ACTC). He was one of the ACTC's candidates inJaffna District at the1989 parliamentary election but the ACTC failed to win any seats inParliament.[3][4] He took on the leadership of the party following the assassination ofKumar Ponnambalam in January 2000. He was the ACTC candidate for Jaffna District at the2000 parliamentary election. He was elected and entered Parliament.[5] He relinquished leadership of the ACTC to Ponnambalam's sonGajendrakumar Ponnambalam when he entered politics in 2001.
On 20 October 2001 the ACTC,Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front,Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization andTamil United Liberation Front formed theTamil National Alliance (TNA).[6][7] Vinayagamoorthy contested the2001 parliamentary election as one of the TNA's candidates in Jaffna District. He was elected and re-entered Parliament.[8] He was one of the TNA's candidates inVanni District at the2004 parliamentary election but failed to get elected after coming sixth amongst the TNA candidates.[9]
Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam left the TNA in 2010, taking the ACTC with him but Vinayagamoorthy stayed with the TNA. He was one of the TNA's candidates in Jaffna District at the2010 parliamentary election. He was elected and re-entered Parliament.[10] He was not chosen to contest the2015 parliamentary election.[11]
| Election | Constituency | Party | Votes | Result |
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| 1989 parliamentary[4] | Jaffna District | ACTC | 986 | Not elected |
| 2000 parliamentary[5] | Jaffna District | ACTC | 3,825 | Elected |
| 2001 parliamentary[8] | Jaffna District | TNA | 19,472 | Elected |
| 2004 parliamentary[9] | Vanni District | TNA | 13,586 | Not elected |
| 2010 parliamentary[10] | Jaffna District | TNA | 15,311 | Elected |
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