Subaiya Nadesan
Politician
1895 –
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Who is Subaiya Nadesan?
Subaiya Nadesapillai also known as S. Nadesan was the son-in-law of Ponnambalam Ramanathan and a Tamil senator from Jaffna, Sri Lanka. He was a United National Party candidate and defeated Samuel Chelvanayakam in the 1952 Jaffna elections, after losing to him in the 1947 elections from Kankesanthurai. He was a defender of a political solution to the Sri Lanka conflict but left the UNP when it embraced a Sinhala-only campaign. He was a member of the state council, the parliament, and later became a minister.
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- Born
- May 21, 1895
Thanjavur - Also known as
- S. Nadesan
- Religion
- Hindu
- Nationality
- Sri Lanka
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on July 23, 2013
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