Robert Bruce Kadramer (? - 1963) was a Ceylonese politician.[1]
R. B. Kadramer | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Ceylonese Parliament for Batticaloa | |
| In office 1952–1956 | |
| Preceded by | Ahamed Lebbe Sinne Lebbe |
| Succeeded by | C. Rajadurai |
| Personal details | |
| Died | 1963 |
| Political party | Independent politician |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Ethnicity | Sri Lankan Tamil |
At the 1st parliamentary election, held between 23 August 1947 and 20 September 1947, Kadramer contested the Batticaloa electorate as an Independent. He received 2,313 votes (17% of the total votes) but lost to the United National Party candidate, Ahamed Lebbe Sinne Lebbe who polled 4,740 votes (35% of the total vote).[2]
In September 1950 the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (Federal Party) established a branch in Batticaloa, with Kadramer elected as the branch president.[3]
He ran again at the 2nd parliamentary election, held between 24 May 1952 and 30 May 1952, again as an Independent and this time was successful, obtaining 11,420 votes (59% of the total vote) defeating the sitting member, Lebbe, by 3,460 votes.[4] Kadramer, although a Tamil, publicly questioned the creation of a separate Tamil state arguing that there was no geographic contiguity between the Tamil areas of the east and north.[5][6]
In 1956, when the Federal Party competed for the first time in the electorate, Kadramer adopted the party label of the Batticaloa Tamil Speakers Front (BTSF).[7] He was unable to retain his seat at the subsequent 3rd parliamentary election, losing to the Illanki Tamil Arasu Kachi (Federal Party) candidate, C. Rajadurai, by 8,004 votes.[8]
Kadramer died in 1963.[9]
References
edit- ^ "Hon. Kadramer, Robert Bruce, M.P." Parliament of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
- ^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1947" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
- ^ "Federalist Party Branch formed at Batticaloa, Colombo". Indian Daily Mail. 19 September 1950. p. 3.
- ^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1952" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
- ^ Welenghama, Gnanapala; Pillay, Nimal (2014). The Rise of Tamil Separatism in Sri Lanka: From Communalism to Secession. Routledge. p. 191. ISBN 9781135119713.
- ^ Wilson, A. Jeyaratnam (1988). The Break-up of Sri Lanka: The Sinhalese-Tamil Conflict. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. p. 85. ISBN 9781850650331.
- ^ De Silva, G (1979). A Statistical survey of elections to the legislatures of Sri Lanka, 1911-1977. Colombo: Marga Institute. pp. 133–134.
- ^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1956" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
- ^ "Parliamentary Debates, Volume 50, Issues 1-10". Parliament of Ceylon. 1963: 255–258.
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