Jaffna-born Kamsajini Gunaratnam, was elected to the Norwegian Parliament
Gunaratnam, now a citizen of Norway, was elected to its
Parliament at the General Elections held recently. Entering politics from the
Labour Party, she was elected as a
representative to Oslo City Council for the first time in 2007 and took office
as the deputy mayor of Oslo on 21 October 2015. She is a member of the Labour
Party, who represent a progressive, social democratic political approach. In
Workers' Youth League (AUF) she has had both local and central key positions
and has been editor of the nationwide membership magazine, Praksis
33 year old Gunaratnam was born in Sri Lanka and
moved to Norway when she was three years old. Her parents were part of the
Tamil diaspora who worked to maintain the fishing industry in the north of
Norway, though they relocated to Oslo a few years after arriving in the country
so that Gunaratnam and her brother could go to a Tamil school.
Due to her involvement with politics, she was banned from visiting Sri Lanka at
one time
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