Seyed Ali Zahir Moulana, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetSeyed Ali Zahir Moulana
Sri Lankan politician
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Place of Birth: Eravur, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka
About Seyed Ali Zahir Moulana
- Seyed Ali Zahir Moulana (born 25 June 1956) is a Sri Lankan politician, former diplomat and local government activist.
- He is most known for the pivotal and important role he played in bringing about an end to the Sri Lankan Civil War.He has been politically active since 1988, and is the current Member of Parliament for the Batticaloa District, the only directly elected Sri Lanka Muslim Congress Parliamentarian in the current Parliament of Sri Lanka..
- He is the State Minister of Social Empowerment, appointed by President Maithripala Sirisena on 21st December 2018.
- He was previously elected as a Member of Parliament for the Batticaloa District, under the United National Party from August 16, 1994 until his resignation on June 23, 2004.Moulana is most noted for his orchestration of the defection of prominent members of the LTTE guerrilla group, including its one-time Military Commander Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan (Colonel Karuna), from the terror outfit to the government in 2004.
- He resigned his seat in Parliament shortly thereafter due to the rising threat on his life from the LTTE.
- Moulana thereafter was appointed as a high-ranking diplomat at the Embassy of Sri Lanka to the United States., and upon his return to Sri Lanka in 2010, he resumed his political career by being elected as the Mayor of Eravur, and thereafter as a Member of the Eastern Provincial Council and held that position until his re-election to Parliament in August 2015.
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