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Yogaraja Balasingham (Baskaran) contesting on the Labor party ticket became the first Tamil ever to win a seat in the municipal council elections for Oslo, Norway, sources in Norway said.
He came eleventh in the labour party list where 15 members are selected.

The opposition labor party did not win the elections, but Oslo based political observers say that there is a still a chance that the Labor may be able to form a coalition with other parties.


Yogarajah Balasingam
Although Baskaran is the 11th candidate in the party list, he got the third largest personal votes in labor party obtaining 2470 votes. He came eighth in Oslo among candidates from all parties in the personal vote count.

According to the Norwegian Statistikk Sentralbyrå statistics, there are at least 2716 persons with Sri Lankan background eligible for voting in Oslo County Council Elections in 2003.

As a prominent member of Oslo's Tamil Coordinating Committee (TCC), Baskaran, for the past several years, has been involved in community work among the expatriate Tamil community in Oslo, sources said.

Elections for the 59 seats of Oslo Municipal Council are held once every four years.


http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=9907

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• From: Veelan (@ h133n3c1o254.bredband.skanova.com) on: Sat Sep 20 02:27:54 EDT 2003
  
  Hei.. Aj.. where are you from? are you in Europe..
  
  // Veelan \\
  
  
• From: AJ (@ on-tor-blr-a58-03-867.look.ca) on: Sun Sep 21 00:17:19 EDT 2003
  
  
  "Hei.. Aj.. where are you from? are you in Europe.."
  
  I am in Canada. Where are u.
  
  
• From: Veelan (@ h32n5c1o254.bredband.skanova.com) on: Sun Sep 21 16:29:13 EDT 2003
  
  I'm in Scandinavia.
  
  Almost all tamils in oslo.. voted for this tamil man. Tamil people are the third minority in oslo after swedish and paki.
  
  You know.. Scandinaviens are treating us.. as one of their owns.
  
  
  
  /// Veelan \\\
  
  
• From: sri (@ 203.115.31.44) on: Tue Sep 30 03:45:03 EDT 2003
  
  He one the election by filling premarked voting papers is a news item in Norvay.
  
  
• From: sri (@ 203.115.31.44) on: Tue Sep 30 03:45:14 EDT 2003
  
  He one the election by filling premarked voting papers is a news item in Norvay.
  
  
• From: sri (@ 203.115.31.44) on: Tue Sep 30 03:45:40 EDT 2003
  
  He one the election by filling premarked voting papers is a news item in Norvay.
  
  
• From: sri (@ 203.115.31.44) on: Tue Sep 30 03:45:52 EDT 2003
  
  He one the election by filling premarked voting papers is a news item in Norvay.
  
  
• From: sri (@ 203.115.31.44) on: Tue Sep 30 03:46:34 EDT 2003
  
  He one the election by filling premarked voting papers is a news item in Norvay.
  
  
• From: sri (@ 203.115.31.44) on: Tue Sep 30 03:46:44 EDT 2003
  
  He one the election by filling premarked voting papers is a news item in Norvay.
  
  

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