S. Thambirajah

Hon.
S. Thambirajah
MP
Hon. S. Thambirajah MP
Member of the Ceylonese Parliament; for Paddiruppu
	In office; 1970–1977
Preceded by	S. M. Rasamanickam
Succeeded by	P. Ganeshalingam
Personal details
Born	10 November 1917
Party	Sri Lanka Freedom Party
Ethnicity	Sri Lankan Tamil

Preceded byS. M. Rasamanickam

Succeeded byP. Ganeshalingam

Born10 November 1917

PartySri Lanka Freedom Party

Somasuntheram Thambirajah was a Sri Lankan Tamil politician and Member of Parliament.

Thambirajah was born on 10 November 1917.^[1]

He entered Parliament by winning the 1970 parliamentary election as the United National Party's candidate in Paddiruppu.^[2] He contested the 1977 parliamentary election as the Sri Lanka Freedom Party but failed to get re-elected, coming third.^[3]

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Central Province (23)	M. S. Aluthgamage P. G. Ariyatillake Gamini Dissanayake A. G. Fernando Monty Gopallawa A. C. S. Hameed T. B. M. Herath Tamara Kumari Ilangaratne D. M. Jayaratne T. B. Jayasundera U. P. Y. Jinadasa Hector Kobbekaduwa R. Kulatillake H. M. Navaratne E. L. Senanayake Hemachandra Sirisena Piyasena Tennakoon T. B. Tennekoon Richard Udugama P. B. Unantenne J. D. Weerasekera Noel Wimalasena S. B. Yalegama
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Northern Province (13)	V. A. Alegacone S. A. Raheem V. Anandasangaree C. Arulampalam S. J. V. Chelvanayakam V. Dharmalingam K. Jeyakody S. Kathiravelupillai C. X. Martyn V. N. Navaratnam K. P. Ratnam X. M. Sellathambu A. Thiagarajah K. Thurairatnam
North Central Province (8)	T. B. Herath A. M. Jinadasa R. B. Ratnamalala A. M. S. Adikari K. B. Ratnayake Maithripala Senanayake Ratna Deshapriya Senanayake P. M. K. Tennakoon Leelaratne Wijesinghe
North Western Province (16)	S. M. Asenkudhoos M. H. Naina Marikkar Tissa Balalla Augustheenu Fonseka Maithripala Herath S. B. Herat S. D. R. Jayaratne L. B. Jayasena G. W. Samarasinghe Tikiri Banda Subasinghe Mudiyanse Tennakoon Protus Tissera P. B. Wettewa D. P. Wickramasinghe M. A. J. Wijesinghe P. Wijesinghe S. Wijewardena
Sabaragamuwa Province (16)	B. A. P. B. Balasuriya Nanda Ellawala Piyadasa Harischandra P. B. G. Kalugalla V. T. G. Karunaratne Sarath Muttetuwegama Vasudeva Nanayakkara N. M. Perera P. R. Ratnayake Mallikka Ellawala Ratwatte Seetha Seneviratne Dudley Senanayake Rukman Senanayake Athauda Seneviratne W. A. A. Sirisena Dharmadasa Wanniarachchi Dhanapala Weerasekera P. O. Wimalanaga
Southern Province (19)	Sumanapala Dahanayake Wijeyananda Dahanayake Neal de Alwis Ronnie de Mel L. C. de Silva Weerasinghe de Silva Henry William Dissanayake Prins Gunasekera Panini Ilangakoon Albert Kariyawasam M. G. Mendis Aelian Mahanaga Nanayakkara George Rajapaksa Lakshman Rajapaksa Mahinda Rajapaksa Don Roy Rajapakse Senapala Samarasekera Edirisuriya Tennyson B. Y. Tudawe S. A. Wickramasinghe
Uva Province (10)	R. M. Appuhamy W. P. G. Ariyadasa K. Y. M. Wijeratne Banda B. H. Bandara R. M. Bandara W. M. R. S. B. Delungahawatta A. M. Jayawardena S. A. S. Somapala Raja Welegama D. D. E. Wickremaratne
Western Province (35)	Kusala Abhayawardana Felix Dias Bandaranaike Sirimavo Bandaranaike A. T. Basnayake I. A. Cader Falil Caffoor Somaweera Chandrasiri Dharmasena Attygalle Wimalasiri de Mel Colvin R. de Silva K. C. de Silva Wijayapala Mendis Denzil Fernando Cholomondeley Goonewardene Leslie Goonewardene Vivienne Goonewardene Chandra Gunasekera T. B. Ilangaratne Lakshman Jayakody Bonnie Jayasuriya J. R. Jayewardene Pieter Keuneman A. D. J. L. Leo Mangala Moonesinghe S. Obeyesekera Dayasena Pasqual Paris Perera Joseph Michael Perera R. S. Perera Ranasinghe Premadasa Wilfred Senanayake M. P. de Z. Siriwardena Bernard Soysa V. A. Sugathadasa Vincent Perera S. K. K. Suriarachchi Stanley Tillekeratne Herbert Wickramasinghe Ratnasiri Wickremanayake
Appointed (6)	Abdul Aziz M. D. S. Jayawardene S. S. Kulatileke Badi-ud-din Mahmud J. E. J. Rodrigo M. C. Subramaniam Chelliah Kumarasuriyar *Appointed MPs were abolished in 1972 by the First Republican Constitution

Hon. S. Thambirajah MP

Member of the Ceylonese Parliament for Paddiruppu
In office 1970–1977
Preceded by	S. M. Rasamanickam
Succeeded by	P. Ganeshalingam

Personal details
Born	(1917-11-10)10 November 1917
Party	Sri Lanka Freedom Party
Ethnicity	Sri Lankan Tamil

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