Subaiya Nadesan

Politician

1895 –

94

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

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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