Sathasivam Kanagaratnam

Sathasivam Kanagaratnam (; born 28 December 1946) is a Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former Member of Parliament.

Early life and family Kanagaratnam was born on 28 December 1946 Nallur, northern Ceylon. He was educated at Senkuntha Hindu College. He was elected and entered Parliament.

Kanagaratnam and his family were amongst the 300,000 civilians trapped in the No Fire Zone during the final months of the civil war. He disappeared after the end of the civil war in May 2009. He was picked by the police at the Menik Farm IDP camp and taken to Colombo. He had been detained on the orders of Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa for allegedly violating emergency regulations and assisting the LTTE. After eight months of detention Kanagaratnam was released in January 2010 in return for agreeing to support Mahinda Rajapaksa in the presidential election. He was provided with a newly built bungalow inside the Northern Province Governor’s residential complex in Vavuniya.

Kanagaratnam left the TNA and joined Rajapaksa's United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA). He contested the 2010 parliamentary election as one of the UPFA's candidates in Vanni District but failed to get elected after coming sixth amongst the UPFA candidates.

Electoral history + Electoral history of S. KanagaratnamElectionConstituencyPartyVotesResult 2004 parliamentary Vanni District TNA Elected 2010 parliamentary Vanni District UPFA Not elected