Ramesh Pathirana

Ramesh Pathirana is a Sri Lankan politician, a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He belongs to the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.[1][2] He was educated at Richmond College, Galle and University of Peradeniya. He is a physician by profession and is the son of former Education and Higher Education minister Richard Pathirana.

Hon.

Ramesh Pathirana

MP
Member of the Sri Lanka Parliament
for Galle District
Assumed office
2010
Personal details
Born (1969-05-12) 12 May 1969
Political partySri Lanka Freedom Party
Other political
affiliations		United People's Freedom Alliance
Alma materRichmond College (Sri Lanka), University of Peradeniya
ProfessionPhysician

Political career

He was appointed as Minister of Plantation Industries and Export Agriculture on 22 November 2019 [3] [4]

He was appointed as Minister of Plantation on 12th August 2020 by the SLPP government [5] [6]

Elections

Elected to parliament first in 2010 [7]

In the 2020 general elections held on 5th August 2020 he won the highest preferential votes of 205,814 in the Galle district [8]

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References
  1. "RAMESH PATHIRANA". Directory of Members. Parliament of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
  2. "Parliamentary Elections -2010" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
  3. "Sri Lanka : Sri Lanka\'s interim cabinet under new President sworn-in". www.colombopage.com. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
  4. "New Cabinet sworn in - Sri Lanka Latest News". Sri Lanka News - Newsfirst. 2019-11-22. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
  5. "Sri Lanka President appoints cabinet ministers, state ministers". EconomyNext. 2020-08-12. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  6. "නව ඇමැති මණ්ඩලය". www.lankadeepa.lk (in Sinhala). Retrieved 2020-08-12.
  7. "14th Parliament of Sri Lanka", Wikipedia, 2020-06-15, retrieved 2020-08-07
  8. Pathirana, Ramesh (7 August 2020). www.adaderana.lk http://www.adaderana.lk/news/66250/preferential-votes-of-galle-district-released. Retrieved 2020-08-07. Missing or empty |title= (help)


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