Pramitha Tennakoon

Pramitha Bandara Tennakoon is a Sri Lankan politician, former provincial minister and Member of Parliament.[1]

Hon.

Pramitha Tennakoon

MP
Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka
Assumed office
2020
ConstituencyMatale District
Member of the Central Provincial Council
In office
2009–2018
ConstituencyMatale District
Personal details
Political partySri Lanka Podujana Peramuna
Other political
affiliations		Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance
Alma materUniversity of Buckingham
La Trobe University

Tennakoon is the son of Janaka Bandara Tennakoon and grandson of T. B. Tennekoon, both government ministers.[2] He was educated at St. Peter's College, Colombo.[3] He has a LLB degree from the University of Buckingham and LLM degree from La Trobe University.[3] He was member of the diplomatic staff the Sri Lankan embassy in Cairo, Egypt.[3]

Tennakoon was a member of the Central Provincial Council and Minister for Sports, Youth Affairs, Women's Affairs and Rural Industries Development for the Central Province.[4][5] He was arrested in August 2015 over an alleged assault.[6] He contested the 2020 parliamentary election as a Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance electoral alliance candidate in Matale District and was elected to the Parliament of Sri Lanka.[7][8][9]

Electoral history of Pramitha Tennakoon
Election Constituency Party Alliance Votes Result
2009 provincial[10]Matale DistrictUnited People's Freedom Alliance49,665Elected
2013 provincial[11]Matale DistrictUnited People's Freedom Alliance51,591Elected
2020 parliamentary[8]Matale DistrictSri Lanka Podujana PeramunaSri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance67,776Elected

References
  1. "Directory of Members: Pramitha Bandara Thennakoon". Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Sri Lanka: Parliament of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  2. "All in the family – father and son duos". The Sunday Times. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 9 August 2020. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  3. "Get to know your new parliamentarians". The Sunday Times. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 9 August 2020. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  4. Dias, Keshala (25 April 2017). "Pramitha Bandara Tennakoon steps down from post in protest". News First. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  5. "Thilina Bandara Tennakoon replaces Pramitha Bandara Tennakoon". Daily News. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 3 May 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  6. "Pramitha Tennakoon arrested". Ada Derana. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 2 August 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  7. "Part I : Section (I) — General - Government Notifications - Parliamentary Elections Act, No. 1 of 1981" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. No. 2187/26. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 8 August 2020. p. 4A. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  8. "Matale district; Janaka Bandara tops". The Daily Mirror. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 7 August 2020. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  9. Parasuraman, Lakshme (9 August 2020). "Over 60 new faces in Parliament". Sunday Observer. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  10. "Preferences Matale" (PDF). Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka: Department of Elections. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 January 2010.
  11. Keerthiratna, Mahesh (22 September 2013). "Pramitha Bandara Tennakoon tops in Matale". The Daily Mirror. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
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