Ajith takes Ranjans Seat

Ranjan Ramanayaka ‘s seat has been given to Former State Minister Ajith Mannapperuma by a gazette notification made by the Elections Commission.

 

Mannaperuma was just behind   Ranjan Ramanayake on the Gampaha District list.

 

An Extra-Ordinary Gazette notification was issued by the elections commission yesterday with regard to the new appointment. Educated at Holy Cross College, Gampaha; Bandarawela Central College and Ananda College; he graduated from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Moratuwa and became a Civil Engineer.

 

Mannapperuma joined the United National Party and entered local government politics. He served as the first mayor of Gampaha from 2002 to 2009, before being elected to the Western Provincial Council in 2009. He entered parliament in 2013 from the Gampaha District following the unexpected demise of Jayalath Jayawardena.

 

Mannapperuma was returned to parliament in 2015 from the Gampaha District.] In 2021, he failed to gained the required preferential votes to be elected to parliament,
In 2014 Mannapperuma lost a limb following an accident on the Southern Expressway.