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Arumugam Kandiah Sarveswaran (Tamil: ஆறுமுகம் கந்தையா சர்வேஸ்வரன், romanized: Āṟumukam Kantaiyā Carvēsvaraṉ) is a Sri Lankan Tamil politician and provincial minister.

Sarveswaran is the brother of Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front leader Suresh Premachandran.

Sarveswaran 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. After the election he was appointed to assist the Chief Minister on economic planning. He took his oath as provincial councillor in front of attorney-at-law K. Thayaparan at Vavuniya on 16 October 2013.

Sarveswaran was sworn in as Minister of Education, Sports and Youth Affairs and Cultural Affairs in front of Governor Reginald Cooray on 29 June 2017.

References

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2. Wamanan, Arthur (13 October 2013). "Wigneswaran to grill TNA dissidents". The Nation. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
3. "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. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 25 September 2013.
4. "PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS 2013 – Results and preferential votes: Northern Province". The Daily Mirror. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 26 September 2013. Archived from the original on 2 October 2013.
5. "Division of Ministries of the Northern Provincial Council & Subjects for Councillors" (PDF). TamilNet. 11 October 2013.
6. "Three more TNA elected councilors took oaths in Vavuniya". Asian Tribune. 17 October 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
7. "More TNA members elected to NPC take oaths today". News First. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 16 October 2013. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013.
8. Madushanka, Romesh (29 June 2017). "Two ministers appointed to NPC". The Daily Mirror. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
9. "Two new Northern Provincial Council Ministers". Daily News. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 29 June 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
10. "PART IV (A) - PROVINCIAL COUNCILS Appointments & C., by the Governors NORTHERN PROVINCE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL Appointments made by the Governor of Northern Province" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 2029/17. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 25 July 2017.

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