Sivasithamparam was a Village Cultivation Officer (VCO). He was re-elected at the
July 1960 parliamentary election. He later joined the
All Ceylon Tamil Congress (ACTC), serving as its youth leader. He contested the
1965 parliamentary election as the ACTC candidate and was re-elected. He was however defeated by the
Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) candidate
X. M. Sellathambu at the
1970 parliamentary election. On 14 May 1972 the ACTC, ITAK,
Ceylon Workers' Congress, Eelath Thamilar Otrumai Munnani and All Ceylon Tamil Conference formed the
Tamil United Front, later renamed
Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF). Sivasithamparam was the TULF's candidate in Vavuniya at the
1977 parliamentary election and was re-elected. Sivasithamparam and all other TULF MPs boycotted Parliament from the middle of 1983 for a number of reasons: they were under pressure from
Sri Lankan Tamil militants not to stay in Parliament beyond their normal six-year term; the Sixth Amendment to the
Constitution of Sri Lanka required them to swear an oath unconditionally renouncing support for a
separate state; and the
Black July riots in which up to 3,000 Tamils were murdered by
Sinhalese mobs. After three months of absence, Sivasithamparam forfeited his seat in Parliament on 5 October 1983. On 30 September 1983 the
Sri Lankan Army attacked Sivasithamparam's Madukulam farm, beating to death the farm manager Nadarajah and burning his body. Fearing for his life, Sivasithamparam fled to India. He later migrated to Canada where he died on 9 November 1992. ==References==