{"id":107165,"date":"2013-09-23T14:46:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T09:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=107165"},"modified":"2013-09-27T15:28:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T09:58:07","slug":"epdps-chief-ministerial-candidate-london-thavarajah-lost-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/epdps-chief-ministerial-candidate-london-thavarajah-lost-the-election\/","title":{"rendered":"EPDP&#8217;s Chief Ministerial Candidate London Thavarajah Lost The Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EPDP&#8217;s leading candidate in the Northern provincial polls race did not secure enough votes to obtain a seat in the newly elected council, compounding the party&#8217;s resounding loss in its former stronghold of Kayts.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_105510\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-northern-province-provincial-council-election-the-collapsing-den-of-thieves\/thavarajah\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-105510\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105510\" class=\"size-full wp-image-105510\" title=\"Thavarajah\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Thavarajah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-105510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">S. Thavarajah<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sinnathurai Thavarajah was the EPDP&#8217;s chief ministerial nominee even though the UPFA coalition also had a candidate from SLFP Angajan Ramanathan vying for the province&#8217;s top spot.<\/p>\n<p>The EPDP contested Saturday&#8217;s poll on the UPFA Ticket and lost the Kayts polling decision badly to the TNA which polled a two thirds majority in the Douglas Devananda and Navy controlled islands off the Jaffna peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>The islands have historically favoured Devananda&#8217;s party which won over 70 percent of the votes in the area in the 2010 parliamentary election.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling coalition that managed only 7 seats on the first Northern council is believed to have sidelined the EPDP candidates in favour of Ramanathan who won a seat from the Jaffna district. Two EPDP candidate did also win seats.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts believe the EPDP would have fared better in the election if the party had contested independent of the UPFA.<\/p>\n<p>The Tamil Broadcasting Corp (TBC) Radio of London in\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbcuk.net\/?p=4847\">Feb. 2012 reported<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that Thavarajah \u201chas sought political asylum in London and in his asylum application, he has made all the allegations against Douglas Devananda and the EPDP [sic]. He is said to have visited the Sri Lanka High Commission in London to obtain special clearance for his visa to enter Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":105510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>EPDP&#039;s Chief Ministerial Candidate London Thavarajah Lost The Election  - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/epdps-chief-ministerial-candidate-london-thavarajah-lost-the-election\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EPDP&#039;s Chief Ministerial Candidate London Thavarajah Lost The Election  - Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/epdps-chief-ministerial-candidate-london-thavarajah-lost-the-election\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-09-23T09:16:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-09-27T09:58:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Thavarajah.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"240\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"180\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"COLOMBO TELEGRAPH\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"COLOMBO TELEGRAPH\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/epdps-chief-ministerial-candidate-london-thavarajah-lost-the-election\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/epdps-chief-ministerial-candidate-london-thavarajah-lost-the-election\/\",\"name\":\"EPDP's Chief Ministerial Candidate London Thavarajah Lost The Election - Colombo Telegraph\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/epdps-chief-ministerial-candidate-london-thavarajah-lost-the-election\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/epdps-chief-ministerial-candidate-london-thavarajah-lost-the-election\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Thavarajah.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-09-23T09:16:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-09-27T09:58:07+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9db3d0cfcfa59e1997e3c3524d454cb3\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/epdps-chief-ministerial-candidate-london-thavarajah-lost-the-election\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/epdps-chief-ministerial-candidate-london-thavarajah-lost-the-election\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/epdps-chief-ministerial-candidate-london-thavarajah-lost-the-election\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Thavarajah.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Thavarajah.jpg\",\"width\":\"240\",\"height\":\"180\",\"caption\":\"S. 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