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Dissanayake graduated from the University of Peradeniya with a Bachelor of Arts degree upon graduating from the university, which merged while he was there with the University of Ceylon. [2] He then obtained an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania [ 2 ] and a Ph.D from the University of Cambridge .
Wimalaweera Dissanayake (Sinhala: විමලවීර දිසානායක) is a Sri Lankan politician and member of parliament for Digamadulla District. [1] He was elected on 18 August 2015 from United People's Freedom Alliance . [ 2 ]
Prof. K. M. de Silva – Executive Director of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies [17] Prof. K. N. O. Dharmadasa – editor-in-chief, Sinhala encyclopaedia [18] Prof. Gishan Dissanaike – financial economist; Adam Smith Professor of Corporate Governance at the University of Cambridge; head of the Finance Department; Director of the Cambridge MPhil Programme in Finance [19] [20]
Singharage Sarath Chandra de Silva; Wannakuwattewaduge Dinesh Nishantha Fernando; Ponnambalam Jamunadevi; Mahindadasa Wickramanayaka Karunaratne; Samantha Sathischandra Wanniarachchi Kumarasinghe
Anura Kumara Dissanayake ran for a second time under the banner of the NPP. The election was a three-way contest between incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe, incumbent Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa and Dissanayake. The first vote count concluded with no candidate winning a majority.
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The 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka, known officially as the 6th Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, was a meeting of the Parliament of Sri Lanka, with the membership determined by the results of the 2004 parliamentary election held on 2 April 2004.
The 14th parliamentary election was held on 8 April and 20 April 2010. The incumbent United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) secured a landslide victory in the elections, buoyed by its achievement of ending the 26-year Sri Lankan Civil War by defeating the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in May 2009.