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{{Short description|Sri Lankan politician (1952–2019)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable|Hon.]]
| name = Thangeswary Kathiraman
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| constituency_MP = [[Batticaloa Electoral District|Batticaloa District]]
| parliament = Sri Lanka
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| term_start = 2004
| term_end = 2010
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1952|02|26}}
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| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2019|10|26|1952|02|26}}
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| party = [[United People's Freedom Alliance]]
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| occupation = District Cultural Officer
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'''Thangeswary Kathiraman''' (26 February 1952 – 26 October 2019)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://athavannews.com/%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%99%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%B8%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%89%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%A8%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B2/ |title=தங்கேஸ்வரியின் உடல் நல்லடக்கம் செய்யப்பட்டது! {{!}} Athavan News |website=athavannews.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191028012008/http://athavannews.com/%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%99%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%B8%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%89%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%A8%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B2/ |archive-date=2019-10-28}}</ref> was a [[Sri Lankan Tamil]] [[politician]] who served as [[Member of Parliament]].

In 2004 Thangeswary was selected by the [[Tamil Tigers]] as a [[Tamil National Alliance]] (TNA) parliamentary candidate.<ref>{{cite news|last=DBS Jeyaraj|author-link=|title=TAMIL NATIONAL ALLIANCE ENTERS CRITICAL THIRD PHASE −2|url=http://www.dailymirror.lk/print/index.php/opinion1/7441.html|newspaper=[[Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)]]|date=3 April 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100516020551/http://www.dailymirror.lk/print/index.php/opinion1/7441.html|archive-date=16 May 2010}}</ref> Thangeswary represented the [[Batticaloa Electoral District|Batticaloa]] [[multi-member]] [[Electoral districts in Sri Lanka|electoral district]] for the TNA in the [[Sri Lankan Parliament]] between [[2004 Sri Lankan parliamentary election|April 2004]] and February 2010.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

In 2010, after the Tamil Tigers' defeat in the [[Sri Lankan civil war|civil war]], the TNA deselected most of its Tamil Tiger appointed MPs, including Thangeswary.<ref>{{cite news|last=DBS Jeyaraj|author-link=|title=T.N.A. PERFORMS CREDITABLY IN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS|url=http://www.dailymirror.lk/print/index.php/opinion1/8325.html|newspaper=[[Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)]]|date=17 April 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523064212/http://www.dailymirror.lk/print/index.php/opinion1/8325.html|archive-date=23 May 2010}}</ref> She subsequently joined the governing [[United People's Freedom Alliance]] (UPFA) and stood as one of its candidates in Batticaloa District in the [[2010 Sri Lankan parliamentary election|2010 parliamentary election]]. She failed to get elected, coming eighth and last amongst the UPFA candidates.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

==References==
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{{Members of the Sri Lankan Parliament from Batticaloa}}
{{Members of 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka}}

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[[Category:Tamil National Alliance politicians]]
[[Category:Women legislators in Sri Lanka]]

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