List of Mayors of Jaffna

Mayor of Jaffna
Incumbent Yogeswari Patkunarajah since 1 September 2009
Jaffna Municipal Council
Style	Her Worship
Seat	Jaffna Town Hall
Constituting instrument	Local Government Ordinance No. 11 of 1920
Formation	1 January 1923
First holder	A. Canagaratnam

The Mayor of Jaffna is the head of the Jaffna Municipal Council, the local authority for the city of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka.

Mayors

Chairmen

Name	Took office	Left office	Refs
Canagaratnam, A.A. Canagaratnam			[1][2]
Sabapathy, Sam A.Sam A. Sabapathy	1937	1939	[3]
Aiyadurai, K.K. Aiyadurai	1942	1943	[4]

Mayors

Name		Party	Took office	Left office	Refs
	Sabapathy, Sam A.Sam A. Sabapathy		6 January 1949	31 December 1949	[3][5][6]
	Ponnambalam, CathiraveluCathiravelu Ponnambalam		6 January 1950	31 December 1951
	Sabapathy, Sam A.Sam A. Sabapathy		11 January 1952	31 December 1954	[3][5][6]
	Sulthan, Kadhi. M. A. M. M.Kadhi. M. A. M. M. Sulthan		5 January 1955	31 December 1955
	Navaratnam, S. A.S. A. Navaratnam		16 January 1956	31 December 1957
	Kasipillai, P.P. Kasipillai		6 July 1960	31 December 1960
	Thurairajah, T. S.T. S. Thurairajah		7 January 1961	12 February 1962
	Jacob, M.M. Jacob		19 February 1962	15 May 1963
	Tharmalingam, S. A.S. A. Tharmalingam		28 May 1962	4 April 1963	[7]
	Yoon, P. M.P. M. Yoon		11 April 1963	6 May 1963
	Thurairajah, T. S.T. S. Thurairajah		15 May 1963	6 May 1963
	Mahadeva, S. S.S. S. Mahadeva		8 July 1965	31 December 1965
	Nagarajah, S.S. Nagarajah		8 January 1966	24 March 1966	[8]
	Duraiappah, AlfredAlfred Duraiappah		15 February 1970	21 April 1971	[9][10][11]
	Duraiappah, AlfredAlfred Duraiappah	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	22 April 1971	27 July 1975	[9][10][11]
	Viswanathan, R.R. Viswanathan		1 June 1979	31 May 1983	[12][13][14]
	Yogeswaran, SarojiniSarojini Yogeswaran	Tamil United Liberation Front	11 March 1998	17 May 1998	[15][16][17]
	Sivapalan, PonPon Sivapalan	Tamil United Liberation Front	29 June 1998	11 September 1998	[18][19]
	Raviraj, NadarajahNadarajah Raviraj	Tamil United Liberation Front	9 January 2001	18 December 2001	[20][21][22]
	Kandaiyan, SellanSellan Kandaiyan	Tamil United Liberation Front	15 January 2002	13 February 2003	[23][24][25]
	Patkunarajah, YogeswariYogeswari Patkunarajah	Eelam People's Democratic Party	1 September 2009		[26][27][28]

Notes

1. Arumugam 1997, p. 28.
2. "Stamp to honour Cathiravelu Sittampalam". Daily News (Sri Lanka). 26 February 2004.
3. Arumugam 1997, pp. 169–170.
4. Arumugam 1997, p. 2.
5. Thurairajah, V. S. (12 December 2002). "Jaffna Library rises from its ruins". Daily News (Sri Lanka).
6. Palakidnar, Ananth (5 December 2004). "No shoes please". Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka).
7. Arumugam 1997, p. 229.
8. "Former Mayor of Jaffna passes away". TamilNet. 9 May 2008.
9. Arumugam 1997, pp. 50–51.
10. Pethiyagoda, A. C. B. (19 October 2014). "Train Travel to Jaffna in the mid-1950s". The Island (Sri Lanka).
11. "Masked gunmen kill Jaffna Mayor Shot dead outside temple". Daily News (Sri Lanka). 26 May 2009.
12. Rajakarunanayake, Lucien (11 January 2014). "Spotlight on Rudrakumaran and Channel 4". The Island (Sri Lanka).
13. Padmasiri, Jayashika (27 May 2012). "Phoenix from the Ashes". Ceylon Today.
14. Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 27: Horsewhip Amirthalingham". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story.
15. Suryanarayana, P. S. (6 June 1998). "Pacification efforts in peril". Frontline (magazine). 15 (12).
16. "Jaffna Mayor Killed in Ambush at Home". Los Angeles Times. 18 May 1998.
17. "Jaffna Mayor's killing claimed". TamilNet. 18 May 1998.
18. "World: South Asia Sri Lanka bomb kills Jaffna mayor". BBC News. 11 September 1998.
19. "Jaffna Mayor succumbs to injuries". TamilNet. 11 September 1998.
20. "Sri Lankan MP killed in Colombo". BBC News. 10 November 2006.
21. "Tamil Parliamentarian Raviraj assassinated in Colombo". TamilNet. 10 November 2006.
22. Reddy, B. Muralidhar (2 January 2008). "Tamil lawmaker's killer detained, injured in retaliatory firing". The Hindu.
23. "Sangaree readies to contest in Jaffna". TamilNet. 21 February 2004.
24. "University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) Bulletin: The Worm Turns and Elections Where the People Will Not Count Effect on choice of candidates before the People". The Island (Sri Lanka). 12 March 2004.
25. "Long range vision on the LTTE". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 30 March 2003.
26. "Patkunam Yogeswary appointed Mayor of JMC". TamilNet. 11 August 2009.
27. "Jaffna Mayor's visit to New Delhi". Ceylon Today. 31 May 2014.
28. Palakidnar, Ananth (4 October 2009). "Light at the end of the tunnel for Jaffna - Mayoress". Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka).

References

• Arumugam, S. (1997). Dictionary of Biography of the Tamils of Ceylon (PDF).

Sources

• "Past Mayors". Jaffna Municipal Council. Archived from the original on 18 October 2013.