Perumal Rajadurai

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Sundaram Perumal Rajadurai (born 26 March 1967) is a Sri Lankan attorney-at-law, politician and former member of parliament.

Early life and family

Rajadurai was born on 26 March 1967.{{cite web|title=Directory of Members: Perumal Rajathurai|url=http://www.parliament.lk/en/members-of-parliament/directory-of-members/viewMember/3158|publisher=Parliament of Sri Lanka}} His family were estate workers at the Rockland estate in Udapussellawa.{{cite web|last1=Jeyaraj|first1=D. B. S.|author-link1=|title=Decline of Tamil representation outside the North and East|url=http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/1446|publisher=dbsjeyaraj.com|date=23 April 2010}} He studied at Suriyagaha Pathana Tamil Vidyalayam and Ragala Tamil Vidyalayam.{{cite news|title=New faces in Parliament|url=http://www.sundaytimes.lk/100418/News/page8.pdf|work=The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)|date=18 April 2010}}

Career

Rajadurai is an attorney-at-law, acting magistrate and president of the Nuwara Eliya Rotary Club.

Rajadurai contested the 2010 parliamentary election as one of the United People's Freedom Alliance's (UPFA) candidates in Nuwara Eliya District. He was elected and entered Parliament.{{cite web|url=http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/GE2010_preferences/Nuwara%20Eliya_pref_GE2010.pdf|title=Parliamentary General Election - 2010 Nuwara Eliya Preferences|publisher=Department of Elections, Sri Lanka|access-date=2013-03-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100513034353/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/GE2010_preferences/Nuwara%20Eliya_pref_GE2010.pdf|archive-date=2010-05-13|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|title=General Elections 2010 - Preferential Votes|url=http://www.sundaytimes.lk/100411/News/page1.pdf|work=The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)|date=11 April 2010}} On 8 August 2013 Rajadurai left the Ceylon Workers' Congress to sit as an independent MP supporting UPFA.{{cite news|title=CWC MP resigns from party|url=http://www.dailymirror.lk/news/33530-cwc-mp-resigns-from-party.html|work=The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)|date=8 August 2013}}{{cite news|title=MP Rajadurai resigns from CWC|url=http://www.nation.lk/edition/breaking-news/item/19901-mp-rajadurai-resigns-from-cwc.html|work=The Nation (Sri Lanka)|date=8 August 2013|access-date=13 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213234727/http://www.nation.lk/edition/breaking-news/item/19901-mp-rajadurai-resigns-from-cwc.html|archive-date=13 December 2014|url-status=dead}} He joined the National Union of Workers as its deputy leader on 18 August 2013.{{cite news|title=Rajathurai joins NUW|url=http://www.dailymirror.lk/news/34040-rajathurai-joins-nuw.html|work=The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)|date=19 August 2013}}

Rajadurai resigned from the UPFA on 21 November 2014 to support common opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena at the presidential election.{{cite news|title=CWC MP quits UPFA, joins UNP|url=http://www.ft.lk/2014/11/26/cwc-mp-quits-upfa-joins-unp/|work=Daily FT|date=26 November 2014|access-date=13 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213213332/http://www.ft.lk/2014/11/26/cwc-mp-quits-upfa-joins-unp/|archive-date=13 December 2014|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|last1=Jabbar|first1=Zacki|title=UPFA MP Perumal Rajathurai defects to UNP|url=http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=114623|work=The Island (Sri Lanka)|date=22 November 2014}} He joined the United National Party (UNP) on 25 November 2014.{{cite news|last1=Borham|first1=Maneshka|title=UPFA MP crosses over|url=http://www.nation.lk/edition/breaking-news/item/35573-upfa-mp-crosses-over.html|work=The Nation (Sri Lanka)|date=25 November 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141127185726/http://www.nation.lk/edition/breaking-news/item/35573-upfa-mp-crosses-over.html|archive-date=27 November 2014}} He was appointed the UNP organizer for Nuwara Eliya.{{cite news|title=No Maithri for Mahinda|url=http://www.ft.lk/2014/11/22/no-maithri-for-mahinda/|work=Daily FT|date=22 November 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129070825/http://www.ft.lk/2014/11/22/no-maithri-for-mahinda/|archive-date=29 November 2014}} He failed to get re-elected at the 2015 parliamentary election after coming eighth amongst the United National Front for Good Governance candidates.{{cite news|title=Ranil tops with over 500,000 votes in Colombo|url=http://www.dailymirror.lk/83949/ranil-tops-with-over-500-000-votes-in-colombo|work=The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)|date=19 August 2015}}