Subaiya Nadesan Politician
Subaiya Nadesapillai (Tamil: சுப்பையா நடேசபிள்ளை; 21 May 1895 - 15 January 1965) 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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