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Prince Casinader - Wikipedia

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Hon. Prince Casinader
பிரின்ஸ் காசிநாதர்


Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka
In office 1989–1994
Constituency	Batticaloa District

Personal details
Born	(1926-07-21)21 July 1926 Batticaloa, Ceylon
Died	12 December 2018(2018-12-12) (aged 92) Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
Political party	Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front
Profession	Teacher
Ethnicity	Sri Lankan Tamil

Prince Gunarasa Casinader (Tamil: பிரின்ஸ் குணராசா காசிநாதர்; 21 July 1926 – 12 December 2018) was a Sri Lankan Tamil teacher, politician and Member of Parliament.

Early life and family

Casinader was born 21 July 1926 in Batticaloa in eastern Ceylon.^[1]^[2] He was the son of Charles Brown Casinader, a kachcheri mudaliyar, and Mildred.^[3] He had four brothers (Wesley, Bertram, Noble and Kingsley).^[2]^[3] He was educated at Vincent Girls' High School, St. Cecilia's Girls' College and Methodist Central College in Batticaloa.^[2]^[4]

Casinader had ambitions to be a lawyer but in 1946, due to a shortage of teachers, the principal of Methodist Central College, S. V. O. Somanader, invited Casinader to be a temporary voluntary teacher at the school.^[1]^[4] He studied at the Government Teachers' College (GTC) in Maharagama between 1950 and 1951, obtaining a diploma in education.^[1]^[2]^[4]

Casinader was married to Anne.^[5] He had two daughters, Praemini and Sharmini.^[2]

Career

After qualifying Casinader returned to Methodist Central College in 1952, serving as a teacher and deputy principal before becoming principal in 1975.^[2]^[4]^[5]^[6] He retired in 1986 after 40 years of teaching at Methodist Central College.^[1]^[4]

Casinader contested the 1989 parliamentary election as one of the ENDLF/EPRLF/TELO/TULF alliance's candidates in Batticaloa District and was elected to Parliament.^[7]^[8]

Casinader was president of the Batticaloa Citizens’ Committee and the Batticaloa Vigilance Committee.^[2]^[4]^[9] He represented Sri Lanka at Amnesty International's world conference in Amsterdam.^[2] He was vice-president of the Secondary Trained Teachers’ Union, president of the Batticaloa branch of the Ceylon Teachers’ Union and a founding member of the GTC Fifties.^[1]^[2]^[9] He was president of the Batticaloa Football Association and East Ceylon Travellers’ Federation, co-patron of the Ceylon Referees Association and vice-chairman of the Eastern Transport Board Consultative Committee.^[1]^[9] He was a member of the Eastern University of Sri Lanka's board of governors.^[2]^[4] He contributed articles for Sri Lankan newspapers and Asiaweek.^[1]

Casinader died on 12 December 2018 at his home in Batticaloa.^[4]^[9]

Electoral history

Electoral history of Prince Casinader
Election	Constituency	Party	Alliance	Votes	Result
1989 parliamentary^[7]^[8]	Batticaloa District	Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front	ENDLF/EPRLF/TELO/TULF	21,959	Elected

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g de Silva, W. P. P.; Ferdinando, T. C. L. (1989). 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited. pp. 268–269. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Withana, Cecil (17 July 2016). "Prince Casinader of Batticaloa is 90 years old". The Island. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Obituaries". The Daily Mirror. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 28 June 2013. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Tambimuttu, Arun (17 December 2018). "Batticaloa bids farewell to beloved Prince". The Island. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Sri Lanka would have been the loser if English had been downgraded". The Island. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 19 April 2004. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
^ Jeyaraj, D. B. S. (1 January 2006). "The benign parliamentarian from Batticaloa". Transcurrents. Archived from the original on 26 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ ^a ^b "Results of Parliamentary General Election – 1989" (PDF). Colombo, Sri Lanka: Election Commission of Sri Lanka. p. 33. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
^ ^a ^b de Silva, W. P. P.; Ferdinando, T. C. L. (1989). 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited. p. 186. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Phakuerdeen, M. A. (14 December 2018). "Prince Casinader passes away". Daily News. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 17 December 2018.

v t e Members of the Sri Lankan Parliament from Batticaloa
Batticaloa Electoral District (1947–1989) Current District: Batticaloa Electoral District
One–member (1947 – 1960)	Ahamed Lebbe Sinnalebbe Robert Kadramer Chelliah Rajadurai
Two–member (1960 – 1989)	Seat A: Chelliah Rajadurai Seat B: Ahmed Hussain Macan Markar Abdul Lathiff Sinnalebbe P. R. Selvanayagam M. L. Ahamed Fareeth Ahamed Rizvi Sinnalebbe
Multi–member (1989 – Present)	(1989 – 1994): Govinthan Karunakaran Alathipody Gunaseelan Prince Casinader Sam Tambimuttu (Until 1990) Replaced by Joseph Pararajasingham M. L. A. M. Hizbullah (1994 – 2000): Joseph Pararajasingham Ponnambalam Selvarasa Krishnapillai Thurairajasingam M. L. A. M. Hizbullah Seyed Ali Zahir Moulana (2000 – 2001): Abdul Cader Nimalan Soundaranayagam Seyed Ali Zahir Moulana Joseph Pararajasingham S. Ganeshamoorthy (2001 – 2004): Thambirajah Thangavadivel Gnanamuttu Krishnapillai Joseph Pararajasingham M. L. A. M. Hizbullah M. B. Mohideen Abdul Cader (2004 – 2010): Thanmanpillai Kanagasabai Thangeswary Kathiraman Senathirajah Jeyanandamoorthy Kingsley Rasanayagam Pakkiyaselvam Ariyanethiran Ameer Ali Shihabdeen (2010 – 2015): M. L. A. M. Hizbullah Seeniththamby Yogeswaran Ponnambalam Selvarasa Pakkiyaselvam Ariyanethiran Basheer Segu Dawood (2015 – 2020): Gnanamuttu Sirinesan Sathasivam Viyalendiran Seeniththamby Yogeswaran Seyed Ali Zahir Moulana Ameer Ali Shihabdeen (2020 – Present): Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan Shanakiyan Rajaputhiran Rasamanickam Govinthan Karunakaran Sathasivam Viyalendiran Naseer Ahamed

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Kandy	Mahinda Abeykoon Tissa Attanayake A. R. M. Abdul Cader Chandraman de Silva Harindra Dunuwille Abdul Cader Shahul Hameed D. M. Jayaratne Lakshman Kiriella Mahahitana Arachchige Daniel Yasaratne Tennakoon Dingiri Banda Wijetunga Premachandra Wijesiri
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Ampara	M. H. M. Ashraff Nihal Bakmeewewa Ahangama Polwatte Galappatthige Chandradasa P. Dayaratna Karunasinghe Thewarapperuma J. Thiviyanathan
Batticaloa	Prince Casinader Alathipody Gunaseelan M. L. A. M. Hizbullah G. Karunakaran Sam Tambimuttu
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