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| honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable|Hon.]]<br />
| name = Kingsley Rasanayagam<br />
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| constituency_MP = [[Batticaloa Electoral District|Batticaloa District]]<br />
| parliament = Sri Lanka<br />
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| successor = [[Pakkiyaselvam Ariyanethiran]]<br />
| term_start = 2 April 2004<br />
| term_end = 18 May 2004<br />
| birth_date = 1941<br />
| birth_place = Kallaru, [[Batticaloa]]<br />
| death_date = 19 October 2004<br />
| death_place = Iruthayapuram, [[Batticaloa]]<br />
| nationality = Sri Lankan<br />
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| profession = [[People's Bank (Sri Lanka)|People's Bank]] employee<br />
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'''Kingsley Rasanayagam''' (1941–2004) was a [[Sri Lankan Tamil]] [[politician]] and former [[Member of Parliament]]. In 2004 Rasanayagam was selected by the [[Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam]] (LTTE) as a [[Tamil National Alliance]] (TNA) parliamentary candidate.<ref>{{cite news|last=DBS Jeyaraj|author-link=|title=Tamil National Aliance Enters Critical Third Phase -2|url=http://www.dailymirror.lk/print/index.php/opinion1/7441.html|newspaper=[[Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)]]|date=3 April 2010|access-date=11 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100516020551/http://www.dailymirror.lk/print/index.php/opinion1/7441.html|archive-date=16 May 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> He represented the [[Batticaloa Electoral District|Batticaloa]] [[multi-member]] [[Electoral districts in Sri Lanka|electoral district]] for the TNA in the [[Sri Lankan Parliament]], for a short period of time between [[2004 Sri Lankan parliamentary election|April 2004]] and May 2004. In May 2004, he was pressured to resign, by the LTTE because of his close relationship with former LTTE Eastern Province leader [[Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan]] ''alias'' Karuna Amman. LTTE chief [[Velupillai Prabhakaran]] feared that he would become a patron to the political party registered by Karuna Amman, [[Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal]] (TMVP).<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Kingsley Rasanayagam was born in Kallaru, [[Batticaloa]]. He was a Tamil Christian (Methodist). His father was a schoolmaster when he moved to the Batticaloa town at Kingsly's younger age.<br />
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==Politics==<br />
Rasanayagam was involved in [[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]] ''aka'' Federal Party since his early days. He started playing a prominent role as a member of the Batticaloa citizens committee after 1983. He was a close associate of senior LTTE leader Kasi Anandan by the [[Indian Peace Keeping Force]] period during 1987–90. He resigned from Peoples' Bank and began working with the [[Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation]]. After that, he became a trusted confidant of Karuna Amman.<ref>{{cite news|last=DBS Jeyaraj|author-link=|title=The killing of Kingsley Rasanayagam |url=http://www.thesundayleader.lk/archive/20041024/issues.htm|newspaper=[[The Sunday Leader]]|date=24 October 2004}}</ref> With the help of Amman, Rasanayagam contested in 2004 Parliamentary elections and won. Because TNA salewarts like [[Joseph Pararajasingham]] and [[Pakkiyaselvam Ariyanethiran]], failed to get selected in the election, LTTE pressurized Rasanayagam to resign though he stated it was for personal reasons.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.com/sinhala/news/story/2004/10/printable/041019_mp_shotdea | title=Former TNA MP shot dead | publisher=BBC Sinhala | date=19 October 2004 | accessdate=4 July 2021}}</ref> He resigned from his parliamentary seat in May 2004.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?artid=11776&catid=13 | title=Batticaloa-Amparai TNA MPs to meet Thamilchelvan | publisher=Tamilnet | date=19 April 2004 | accessdate=4 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=11661 | title=TamilNet Batticaloa correspondent elected TNA MP | publisher=Tamilnet | date=3 April 2004 | accessdate=4 July 2021}}</ref><br />
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==Death==<br />
Around 6:20&nbsp;p.m., 19 October 2004, he was shot him dead by unidentified gunmen near Kalliyankaadu cemetery in Iruthayapuram within Batticaloa municipal limits.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=13182 | title=Ex TNA MP shot dead in Batticaloa | publisher=Tamilnet | date=19 October 2004 | accessdate=4 July 2021}}</ref> DBS Jeyaraj blames the LTTE for his killing.<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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{{Members of the Sri Lankan Parliament from Batticaloa}}<br />
{{Members of 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka}}<br />
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