SL born Khamshajiny to become Dy. Mayor
of Oslo
2015-10-21
Sri Lankan born Khamshajiny Gunaratnam is to become the new deputy mayor of Oslo as Norway’s Labour Party and its Green and Socialist allies retake the city after eight years of Conservative rule.
Gunaratnam was 23-years-old when Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik attacked the Labour party summer camp she was attending on the island of Utøya in 2011.
The 27-year-old Utøya survivor— who styles herself “Kamzy” — was born in Sri Lanka and moved to Norway when she was three years old.
She will be formally elected at a meeting of the city’s new council on Wednesday.
She will serve under the city’s new mayor Marianne Borgen, a longstanding politician for the Socialist Left party.
Borgen’s appointment ended hopes that the city could see its first Muslim mayor, after the Green Party’s candidate Shoaib Sultan became sidelined in the Labour Party’s coalition deal.
“It was for me the safest place in the world,” she told the New York Times after the event in Utøya.
She told the Financial Times how she decided to try to swim to land from the island, despite seeing many turning back in exhaustion.
“Eventually, I decided I would rather drown than be shot,” she said. (thelocal.no)
Submitted by Priyatharshan on Wed, 10/21/2015
of Oslo
2015-10-21Sri Lankan born Khamshajiny Gunaratnam is to become the new deputy mayor of Oslo as Norway’s Labour Party and its Green and Socialist allies retake the city after eight years of Conservative rule.Gunaratnam was 23-years-old when Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik attacked the Labour party summer camp she was attending on the island of Utøya in 2011.
The 27-year-old Utøya survivor— who styles herself “Kamzy” — was born in Sri Lanka and moved to Norway when she was three years old.
She will be formally elected at a meeting of the city’s new council on Wednesday.
She will serve under the city’s new mayor Marianne Borgen, a longstanding politician for the Socialist Left party.
Borgen’s appointment ended hopes that the city could see its first Muslim mayor, after the Green Party’s candidate Shoaib Sultan became sidelined in the Labour Party’s coalition deal.
“It was for me the safest place in the world,” she told the New York Times after the event in Utøya.
She told the Financial Times how she decided to try to swim to land from the island, despite seeing many turning back in exhaustion.
“Eventually, I decided I would rather drown than be shot,” she said. (thelocal.no)
ஒஸ்லோவின் உதவி மேயராக இலங்கைத் தமிழ்ப்பெண்
Submitted by Priyatharshan on Wed, 10/21/2015
இலங்கைத் தமிழ்ப்பின்னணியினைக் கொண்ட 27 வயதுடைய கம்ஷாயினி குணரட்ணம் நோர்வேயின் தலைநகரான ஒஸ்லோ மாநகரத்தின் உதவி மேயராகத் தெரிவுசெய்யப்பட்டுள்ளார்.
பதினெட்டு வருடங்களுக்குப் பின் ஒஸ்லோவில் ஆட்சியை மீண்டும் தொழிற்கட்சி வேறிரு கட்சிகளுடன் இணைந்து கைப்பற்றியுள்ளது.
அரசியலைத் தனது முழுநேரப் பணியாகக் கொண்ட கம்ஷாயினி குணரத்னம் ஒஸ்லோ தொழிற்கட்சியின் உதவி மேயராக இளம் வயதிலேயே தெரிவாகியுள்ளார்.
தொழிற் கட்சியின் இளைஞர் அணியில் தலைவராக இருந்து, ஒஸ்லோவின் உதவி மேயராக பெரும் ஆதரவோடு தெரிவானார்.
தொழிற் கட்சியின் இளைஞர் அணியில் தலைவராக இருந்து, ஒஸ்லோவின் உதவி மேயராக பெரும் ஆதரவோடு தெரிவானார்.
ஒஸ்லோவில் விருப்பு வாக்குகள் அடிப்படையில் மூன்றாம் இடத்திலுள்ளமை குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது.
