Hon.
Ajith Mannapperuma
MP
අජිත් මාන්නප්පෙරුම
அஜித் மன்னப்பெரும
Member of Parliament
for Gampaha District
Assumed office
9 April 2021
Preceded byRanjan Ramanayake
In office
4 June 2013 – 3 April 2020
Preceded byJayalath Jayawardena
Personal details
Born25 June 1963
NationalitySri Lankan
Political partySamagi Jana Balawegaya
ProfessionCivil Engineer

Ajith Mannapperuma (Born 25 July 1963) is a Sri Lankan politician. A current Member of Parliament from Gampaha District, he was a former state minister of Mahaveli Development and Environment.

Education

Educated at Holy Cross College, Gampaha; Bandaranayake College and Ananda College; he graduated from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Moratuwa and became a Civil 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.

Political career

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.[1][2] In 2021, he failed to gained the required preferential votes to be elected to parliament, however was appointed to parliament to succeed Ranjan Ramanayake after the latter lost his parliamentary seat following his imprisonment with his conviction of contempt of court.

Personal life

In 2014 Mannapperuma lost a limb following an accident on the Southern Expressway.

References

  1. ↑ "PM Ranil receives highest Preferential votes with 500,566". hirunews.lk. 18 August 2015. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "Preferential votes- General Election 2015". adaderana.lk. 18 August 2015. Retrieved 19 August 2015.


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