Anandatissa de Alwis | |
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| 11th Speaker of the Parliament | |
| In office 4 August 1977 – 7 September 1978 | |
| President | J. R. Jayewardene |
| Prime Minister | Ranasinghe Premadasa J. R. Jayewardene |
| Preceded by | Stanley Tillekeratne |
| Succeeded by | Abdul Bakeer Markar |
Maha Amarasinghege Anandatissa de Alwis (21 August 1919 – 22 August 1996) was a Sri Lankan journalist, marketer and politician. He was theSpeaker of theNational State Assembly, aMinister of State and the fourthGovernor of theNorth Western Province of Sri Lanka. He was a member of the United National Party.[1]
De Alwis started his career as a journalist, serving as a war-time reporter. Later he served asprivate secretary toSir John Kotelawala. He thereafter moved into advertising, working as acopy writer withReggie Candappa atGrant McCann Erickson. He then left Grants to joinJ. Walter Thompson. He left J. Walter Thompson in 1965, to take up the post ofPermanent Secretary to theMinistry of State, underJ. R. Jayewardene who was the Minister of State. De Alwis was the first permanent secretary appointed from the private sector.[2] In 1970, when theUnited National Party was defeated, De Alwis resigned as permanent secretary and established his own advertising company,De Alwis Advertising Company.[3]
A long-standing remember of theUnited National Party, Anandatissa de Alwis had served as first editor of the party journal "Siyarata" and the first president of the All Ceylon United National Party Youth Front. He had also served as its General Secretary.[4]
Anandatissa de Alwis contested the1952 general election and the1956 general election from theKotte electorate from the United National Party, but was defeated byRobert Gunawardena. He was elected to parliament in1977 general elections from the Kotte electorate and was elected asSpeaker on 4 August 1977 and served till he stepped down in 1978. During his tenor he was instrumental in shifting parliament to thenew parliament complex inKotte. He was thereafter appointed asMinister of State by President J. R. Jayewardene. In 1994 he was appointed Governor of the North Western Province by President Wijethunga and served until 1995.[5][6][7][8]
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