Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi
Weerasinghe Mallimaratchi | |
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| Former Cabinet Minister of Food and Co-operative and Janasaviya-Poverty Alleviation ) He is the world's first cabinet minister of Poverty Alleviation ) | |
| Member of Parliament for Colombo District Kolonnawa | |
| In office 25 August 1977 – 24 October 1994 | |
| Preceded by | T. B. Ilangaratne |
| Succeeded by | Bennet Cooray |
| Majority | 5300 votes |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 November 1929 Kandy Central province |
| Died | 24 October 1994 (aged 64) Thotalanga, Grandpass, Sri Lanka. |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Political party | United National Party |
| Spouse | Prema Mallimaratchi |
| Children | Jayantha,Kumar & Janaka |
| Residence(s) | 10,Tamarind Gardens,Kolonnawa |
| Alma mater | Ananda College & Dharmaraja College,Kandy |
| Profession | Politician |
Member of Parliament from 1977 to 1994
Deputy Mayor Colombo 1970-1971 Member Colombo Municipal Council 1962-1977 District Minister of Colombo 1978-1988 Minister of Petroleum Services 1988-1989 State Minister of Industries 1989-1990 Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi (died 24 October 1994) was the Cabinet Minister of Food / Co-operative and Janasaviya) of United National Party government from 1990-94.[1] He was elected to parliament in 1977 & re-elected in 1989 and in 1994 from the Kolonnawa electorate in Colombo district. Parliamentary election of 1994. But his political life was cut short when he was assassinated by a female suicide bomber of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) while attending an election rally in support of Gamini Dissanayake, for the Presidential election of 1994.[2]
See also
References
- ^ "Ministers who served the Co-operative sector from the inception of the Co-operative business in Sri Lanka". Archived from the original on 4 May 2011.
- ^ "Jane's Sentinel examines the success of the LTTE in resisting the Sri Lankan forces". Jane's Sentinel. 4 September 2000. Archived from the original on 15 August 2001. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
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