K. Padmanabha
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| Native name | க. பத்மநாபா |
| Born | 19 November 1951 |
| Died | 19 June 1990 (aged 38) Kodambakam, Madras, India |
| Other names | Ranjan |
| Years active | –1990 |
| Organization | Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front |
Kandasamy Pathmanabha (Tamil: கந்தசாமி பத்மநாபா; 19 November 1951 – 19 June 1990) was a Sri Lankan Tamil rebel and founder/leader of the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF), a separatist Tamil militant organisation in Sri Lanka.
Pathmanabha was born on 19 November 1951. He was from Kankesanthurai in northern Ceylon.
Pathmanabha became interested in radical politics in the late 1960s. He was one of the members of the Tamil Student Federation/Tamil Students' League which was formed in 1972 as a reaction to the discriminatory Policy of standardisation. The 1974 Tamil conference incident further radicalised Pathmanabha.
In 1974/75 Pathmanabha and others founded the Eelam Liberation Organisation (Eela Viduthalai Iyakkam) (ELO). On 10 May 1976 the ELO robbed the Puloly Multi-purpose Cooperative Society's bank in Puloly. Pathmanabha was personally involved in the robbery. Others involved in the robbery included Varatharaja Perumal (later Chief Minister of North Eastern Province), V. Balakumaran (later leader of the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students) and S. Thavaraja (later an Eelam People's Democratic Party MP and leader of the opposition on the Northern Provincial Council). After the robbery Pathmanabha went on the run whilst the ELO disintegrated due to the security crackdown.
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