Maheswaran Malathi

Name: Maheswaran Malathi

Political Party: Tamil National Alliance

Year she joined the party: 2010

Age: 33

District: Trincomalee

Positions held: President of the Gopalapuram Agricultural Farm

Activities: Helping the poor farmers by giving small scale loans for the last 5 years.

She has participated in the ‘Leadership’, ‘Women and Politics’ and ‘Gender Equality’ training programmes conducted by CCF, AWAW and SEDOT respectively.

She says, “Men being in politics are only concerned of men and they are never concerned of matters pertaining to women”. “women’s matters would be concerned if women come into politics.”