P. Ayngaranesan

Honourable
P. Ayngaranesan
MPC
பி. ஐங்கரநேசன்
Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Irrigation and Environment, Northern Province
Assumed office
11 October 2013
Member of the Northern Provincial Council for Jaffna District
Assumed office
11 October 2013
Personal details
Born 1958
Political party Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front
Other political
affiliations		 Tamil National Alliance
Alma mater Jaffna Hindu College
Madras Christian College
Ethnicity Sri Lankan Tamil

Ponnudurai Ayngaranesan (Tamil: பொன்னுத்துரை ஐங்கரநேசன்) is a Sri Lankan Tamil environmentalist, politician and provincial minister.

Ayngaranesan was born in 1958 and educated at Jaffna Hindu College and Madras Christian College.[1] He was director of the Universal Science Centre in Kantharmadam.[1][2] Ayngaranesan is an environmentalist.[3]

Ayngaranesan contested the 2013 provincial council election as one of the Tamil National Alliance's candidates in Jaffna District and was elected to the Northern Provincial Council.[4][5] After the election he was appointed Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Irrigation and Environment.[6][7] He took his oath as minister and provincial councillor in front of Chief Minister C. V. Vigneswaran at Veerasingam Hall on 11 October 2013.[8][9]

References

  1. 1 2 "Hindu old boys P.Ayngaranesan and B.Gajatheepan elected to NPC". jaffnahindu.org. 24 September 2013.
  2. ↑ "Tutorial colleges burnt down in Jaffna". TamilNet. 25 January 2011.
  3. ↑ Jeyaraj, D. B. S. (5 October 2013). "TNA's Tussle Over Provincial Ministry Posts in North". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka).
  4. ↑ "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.
  5. ↑ "PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS 2013 – Results and preferential votes: Northern Province". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 26 September 2013.
  6. ↑ "ITAK announces NPC ministers, EPRLF challenges". TamilNet. 10 October 2013.
  7. ↑ "Sri Lanka's first Tamil CM announces Cabinet". The New Indian Express/Press Trust of India. 10 October 2013.
  8. ↑ "NPC members take oath in Jaffna after honouring fallen Tamil Heroes". TamilNet. 11 October 2013.
  9. ↑ "Northern Provincial Council TNA members take oaths". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 11 October 2013.


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