A. Paranjothy

Ariyakutty Paranjothy (Tamil: அரியகுட்டி பரஞ்சோதி) is a Sri Lankan Tamil politician and provincial councillor.

Honourable A. Paranjothy MPC MMC
அ. பரஞ்சோதி
Member of the Northern Provincial Council for Jaffna District
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 October 2013
Member of Jaffna Municipal Council
In office 2009–2013
Personal details
Political party	Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi
Other political affiliations	Tamil National Alliance
Ethnicity	Sri Lankan Tamil

Paranjothy contested the 2009 local government election as one of the Tamil National Alliance's candidates and was elected to the Jaffna Municipal Council.[1] He contested the 2013 provincial council election as one of the TNA's candidates in Jaffna District and was elected to the Northern Provincial Council.[2][3] After the election he was appointed to assist the Minister of Fisheries, Transport, Trade and Rural Development on rural development.[4] He took his oath as provincial councillor in front of Chief Minister C. V. Vigneswaran at Veerasingam Hall on 11 October 2013.[5][6]

References

1. "Local Authorities Election 2009 Final Results Jaffna Municipal Council - Preferences" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 December 2009.
2. "PART I : SECTION (I) ó 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 December 2013.
3. "PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS 2013 ñ Results and preferential votes: Northern Province". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 26 September 2013. Archived from the original on 16 January 2014.
4. "Division of Ministries of the Northern Provincial Council & Subjects for Councillors" (PDF). TamilNet. 11 October 2013.
5. "NPC members take oath in Jaffna after honouring fallen Tamil Heroes". TamilNet. 11 October 2013.
6. "Northern Provincial Council TNA members take oaths". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 11 October 2013. Archived from the original on 14 October 2013.