Career
In 2004 Rasanayagam was selected by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentary candidate. He represented the Batticaloa multi-member electoral district for the TNA in the Sri Lankan Parliament, for a short period of time between April 2004 and May 2004. In May 2004, he was pressured to resign, by the LTTE because of his close relationship with former LTTE Eastern Province leader Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman.
Kingsley Rasanayagam was born in Kallaru, Batticaloa.
He was a Tamil Christian (Methodist). His father was a schoolmaster when he moved to the Batticaloa town at Kingsly"s younger age.
He resigned from Peoples" Bank and began working with the Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation. After that, he became a trusted confidant of Karuna Amman.
Because TNA salewarts like Joseph Pararajasingham and Pakkiyaselvam Ariyanethiran, failed to get selected in the election, LTTE pressurized Rasanayagam to resign.
He resigned from his parliamentary seat in May 2004. Around 6:20 p.m., 19 October 2004, two LTTE pistol gang members arrived in a motorcycle and shot him dead near Kalliyankaadu cemetery in Iruthayapuram within Batticaloa municipal limits.