 | Thisbiography of a living personneeds additionalcitations forverification. Please help by addingreliable sources.Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced orpoorly sourcedmust be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentiallylibelous. Find sources: "Ajith Mannapperuma" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(November 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
Ajith Mannapperuma | |
|---|---|
| අජිත් මාන්නප්පෙරුම அஜித் மன்னப்பெரும | |
| Member of Parliament forGampaha District | |
| In office 9 April 2021 – 24 September 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Ranjan Ramanayake |
| In office 4 June 2013 – 3 April 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Jayalath Jayawardena |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1963-06-25)25 June 1963 (age 62) |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Political party | Samagi Jana Balawegaya |
| Profession | Civil Engineer |
Ajith Mannapperuma (Born 25 July 1963) is aSri Lankanpolitician. A currentMember of Parliament fromGampaha District, he was a formerstate minister of Mahaveli Development and Environment.
Educated at Holy Cross College, Gampaha;Bandaranayake College andAnanda College; he graduated from the Faculty of Engineering of theUniversity of Moratuwa and became aCivil Engineer. And also He ranked island 9th in Advance Level exam in year 1982 in math stream and entered to University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka. He is a prestigious alumni from University of Moratuwa.
Mannapperuma joined theUnited National Party and entered local government politics. He served as the first mayor ofGampaha from 2002 to 2009, before being elected to theWestern Provincial Council in 2009. He entered parliament in 2013 from theGampaha District following the unexpected demise ofJayalath Jayawardena. Mannapperuma was returned to parliament in 2015 from the Gampaha District.[1][2] In 2021, he failed to gained the required preferential votes to be elected to parliament, however was appointed to parliament to succeedRanjan Ramanayake after the latter lost his parliamentary seat following his imprisonment with his conviction ofcontempt of court.
He withdrew his candidacy after submitting nominations for2024 parliamentary election, criticizing party leaderSajith Premadasa for dismissing him as SJB chief organiser for Gampaha electorate.[3]
In 2014 Mannapperuma lost a limb following an accident on theSouthern Expressway.
| Central (25) |
| ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern (16) |
| ||||||||
| Northern (13) |
| ||||||||
| North Central (14) |
| ||||||||
| North Western (23) |
| ||||||||
| Sabaragamuwa (20) |
| ||||||||
| Southern (25) |
| ||||||||
| Uva (13) |
| ||||||||
| Western (47) |
| ||||||||
| National List (29) |
| ||||||||
| Western |
| ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central |
| ||||||||
| Southern |
| ||||||||
| Northern |
| ||||||||
| Eastern |
| ||||||||
| North Western |
| ||||||||
| North Central |
| ||||||||
| Uva |
| ||||||||
| Sabaragamuwa |
| ||||||||
| National List |
| ||||||||
.png) | This article about a politician fromWestern Province, Sri Lanka is astub. You can help Wikipedia byexpanding it. |
