P. Sathiyalingam

Honourable P. Sathiyalingam MPC
பி. சத்தியலிங்கம்
Minister of Health and Indigenous Medicine, Northern Province
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 October 2013
Member of the Northern Provincial Council for Vavuniya District
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 October 2013
Personal details
Political party	Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi
Other political affiliations	Tamil National Alliance
Profession	Physician
Ethnicity	Sri Lankan Tamil

Pathmanathan Sathiyalingam (Tamil: பத்மநாதன் சத்தியலிங்கம்) is a Sri Lankan Tamil physician, politician and provincial minister.

Sathiyalingam is the son of S. Pathmanathan, a communist who contested the 1970 parliamentary election in Vavuniya.^[1] Sathiyalingam was Medical Officer of Health (MOH) for Vavuniya.^[2][3][4] He is chairman of the Vavuniya branch of the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society.^[5][6]

Pathmanathan contested the 2013 provincial council election as one of the Tamil National Alliance's candidates in Vavuniya District and was elected to the Northern Provincial Council.^[7][8] After the election he was appointed Minister of Health and Indigenous Medicine.^[9][10] He took his oath as minister and provincial councillor in front of Chief Minister C. V. Vigneswaran at Veerasingam Hall on 11 October 2013.^[11][12]

References

1. Jeyaraj, D. B. S. (5 October 2013). "TNA's Tussle Over Provincial Ministry Posts in North". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka).
2. Jayasuriya, Srinath Prasanna (24 September 2003). "Get back: LTTE orders striking health workers in North East". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka).
3. "District Tobacco Control Cell – Vavuniya". Regional Director of Health Services - Vavuniya.
4. "Tamil Civil Society Memo to the TNA regarding the Eastern Provincial Council Elections". Tamil Guardian. 29 July 2012.
5. "Sri Lanka Red Cross Regional Operation and Coordinating Office ( ROCO) opened in Vavuniya". Sri Lanka Red Cross Society.
6. "Contact Directory Northern Province" (PDF). United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. 18 September 2013. p. 157.
7. "PART I : SECTION (I) — 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.
8. "PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS 2013 – Results and preferential votes: Northern Province". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 26 September 2013.
9. "ITAK announces NPC ministers, EPRLF challenges". TamilNet. 10 October 2013.
10. "Sri Lanka's first Tamil CM announces Cabinet". The New Indian Express/Press Trust of India. 10 October 2013.
11. "NPC members take oath in Jaffna after honouring fallen Tamil Heroes". TamilNet. 11 October 2013.
12. "Northern Provincial Council TNA members take oaths". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 11 October 2013.

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