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Ranjith de Zoysa | |
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| Member of Parliament forRatnapura District | |
| In office 22 April 2010 – 4 December 2019 | |
| Succeeded by | Waruna Liyanage |
| Majority | 63,078 Preferential Votes |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1962-05-03)3 May 1962 Ratnapura |
| Died | 4 December 2019(2019-12-04) (aged 57) Singapore |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Political party | Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna |
| Other political affiliations | United People's Freedom Alliance |
| Spouse | Muditha Prishanthi |
| Children | 2 |
| Occupation | Planter |
| Committees | Ministerial Consultative Committee on Plantation Industries[1] |
Thirimadura Ranjith de Zoysa (3 May 1962 – 4 December 2019) was a Sri Lankan politician and member of theParliament of Sri Lanka. He was a member of theSri Lanka Freedom Party andSri Lanka Podujana Peramuna.[2] He died on 4 December 2019 while receiving treatments at a hospital in Singapore for a cardiac condition.[3]
Zoysa was born to a family of seven children from Elpitiya, Godakawela, on 3 May 1962. He obtained primary education from Siddhartha Vidyalaya in Elpitiya, secondary education from Rahula College in Elpitiya, and later studied agriculture inAquinas University College.[4][5]
In the late 1980s, motivated at the time by the radical political wave of the JVP, Zoysa entered politics. He was later elected chairman of Atakalampanna Pradeshiya Sabha in 1997 and appointed chairman of the same Pradeshiya Sabha as opposition leader in 2002. Zoysa was elected to theSabaragamuwa Provincial Council in 2004 and 2008, where he held many positions of provincial minister.[6]
He was first elected from the Rakwana Electorate to the Parliament in 2010, and re-elected from the same electorate in 2015. He later served as theJoint Opposition's deputy national organizer.[7]
In the last presidential election, he played a major role in PresidentGotabaya Rajapaksa's victory.[8]
He was arrested over assaulting a person on 20 December 2018 and remanded until 1 January 2019.[9]
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