Sivanathan Kisshor is a Sri Lankan Tamil politician

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 and former Member of Parliament

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In 2004 Kisshor was selected by the Tamil Tigers as a Tamil National Alliance

Tamil National Alliance

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 (TNA) parliamentary candidate. Kisshor represented the Vanni multi-member electoral district

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 for the TNA in the Sri Lankan Parliament between April 2004

Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 2004

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 and February 2010.

In 2010, after the Tamil Tigers' defeat in the civil war

Sri Lankan civil war

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, the TNA deselected most of its Tamil Tiger appointed MPs, including Kisshor. He subsequently joined the governing United People's Freedom Alliance

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 (UPFA) and stood as one of its candidates in Vanni District in the 2010 parliamentary election

Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 2010

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. He failed to get elected, coming ninth and last amongst the UPFA candidates.