Arulampalam stood as the
All Ceylon Tamil Congress' candidate in
Kopay at the
1952 and as an Independent candidate
1956 parliamentary elections but was defeated by the
Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (Federal Party) candidate
C. Vanniasingam on both occasions. Arulampalam was the ACTC candidate in
Nallur at the
March 1960,
July 1960 and
1965 parliamentary elections but was defeated by the ITAK candidate
E. M. V. Naganathan both times. He eventually entered
Parliament by winning the
1970 parliamentary election. He later defected to the governing
Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and voted for the new
republican constitution. He was labelled a traitor by
Tamil militants and
Tamil nationalists. The SLFP government rewarded Arulampalam by making him Deputy Chairman of Committees in 1976. Arulampalam contested the
1977 parliamentary election as the SLFP candidate in Nallur but was resoundingly defeated by the
Tamil United Liberation Front candidate
M. Sivasithamparam. Arulampalam died on 5 March 1997 in
Solano County, California, USA. ==References==