K. Thurairajasingam

Thurairajasingam was born on 28 July 1956.^[1]

Thurairajasingam is an attorney at law.^[2][3]

Thurairajasingam contested the 1994 parliamentary election as one of the Tamil United Liberation Front's candidates in Batticaloa District and was elected to Parliament.^[4] He contested the 2012 provincial council election as one of the Tamil National Alliance's candidates in Batticaloa District and was elected to the Eastern Provincial Council (EPC).^[5] Thurairajasingam and the other newly elected TNA provincial councillors took their oaths on 28 September 2012 in front of TNA leader and Member of Parliament R. Sampanthan.^[6] During the election campaign Thurairajasingam house was padlocked from the outside in a futile attempt to prevent him submitting the TNA's nominations.^[7][8]

Thurairajasingam became the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi's (ITAK) general secretary in September 2014.^[9][10] Following the 2015 presidential election an all party provincial government was formed in the Eastern Province.^[11][12][13] Thurairajasingam took his oath as Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation in front of Governor Austin Fernando on 3 March 2015.^[14][15]