A. Paranjothy Explained

Honorific-Prefix:	Honourable
A. Paranjothy
Native Name:	அ. பரஞ்சோதி
Native Name Lang:	ta
Honorific-Suffix:	MPC MMC
Office1:	Member of the Northern Provincial Council for Jaffna District
Term Start1:	11 October 2013
Office2:	Member of Jaffna Municipal Council
Term Start2:	2009
Term End2:	2013
Party:	Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi
Otherparty:	Tamil National Alliance
Blank1:	Ethnicity
Data1:	Sri Lankan Tamil

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

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]

Notes and References

Web site: Local Authorities Election 2009 Final Results Jaffna Municipal Council - Preferences . https://web.archive.org/web/20091210031151/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/PrefBadulla2009.pdf . dead . 2009-12-10 . Department of Elections, Sri Lanka .
PART I : SECTION (I) ó GENERAL Government Notifications PROVINCIAL COUNCILS ELECTIONS ACT, No. 2 OF 1988 Northern Province Provincial Council . 25 September 2013 . The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary . 1829/33 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131228114115/http://www.documents.gov.lk/Extgzt/2013/PDF/Sep/1829_33/PG%201763%20%28E%29%20%20I-%201%20%20%28P.C%29.pdf . 28 December 2013 .
News: PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS 2013 ñ Results and preferential votes: Northern Province . . 26 September 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140116012528/http://www.dailymirror.lk/news/infographics/36078-provincial-council-elections-2013--results-and-preferential-votes-northern-province.html . 16 January 2014 .
News: Division of Ministries of the Northern Provincial Council & Subjects for Councillors. TamilNet. 11 October 2013.
News: NPC members take oath in Jaffna after honouring fallen Tamil Heroes. TamilNet. 11 October 2013.
News: Northern Provincial Council TNA members take oaths . . 11 October 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131014080431/http://www.sundaytimes.lk/latest/38525-northern-provincial-council-tna-members-take-oaths.html . 14 October 2013 .